Word: barefooted
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...bark is worse than his bite. They agree that his bark is pretty ferocious, but they point to some paradoxes in his makeup. At 36, Prime Minister Lee is a Cambridge-trained barrister steeped in British ways of thought-as well as a mob orator who shouts to his barefoot followers: "It's us against the white men." A Singapore-born Chinese like his wealthy father and grandfather before him, he rabble-rouses more fluently in English than in Chinese, which he only began to learn two years ago. Among his golfing and Mercedes-driving companions, he is known...
Farm automation: most depressing thing I have ever read. I shall retire with my Currier & Ives, and memories of barefoot childhood, scrunching behind fresh furrows, and the excitement of discovering eggs in the corners of the barnyard...
...mother's barrenness with a root herb, he later took the name of Hastings from a missionary he admired. When only 13 he ran away from home. At first his parents thought he had been eaten by a lion, learned only months later that he had walked barefoot 1,000 miles to the gold mines of South Africa. There, working by day and studying by night, he accumulated a little learning and a little money, with the help of a Methodist bishop made his way to the U.S. Comparing himself to the wandering scholars of the Middle Ages...
...Alfred A. Knopf Sr. Young (19) Knopf had left home and a summer job with a printing firm, despondent over being refused by Princeton, and determined (as he said in a note) not to return till he made good. A week later police found him in Salt Lake City, barefoot, hungry and broke. He had started out with $15, the last $2 of which someone had stolen from him while he was sleeping on a lawn in Utah. Bitterly, "Pat" Knopf noted that only truck drivers had helped him ("The rest of the people are a bunch of damned snobs...
...Bali, "island of the gods," 100 barefoot maidens in sarongs swiveled up and offered silver bowls filled with flowers to Yugoslavia's President Tito, 66, and Indonesia's President Sukarno, 57. Then host and guest retired to the new palace at Tampaksiring, where at sunset maidens splash naked in Roman-style baths beneath Sukarno's windows. With food and music furnished by Sukarno, champagne and slivovitz brought in off Tito's ocean-going yacht Caleb (Seagull), the two Presidents and their wives rang in the New Year in memorable fashion. Dancers trampled the palace lawn with...