Word: barefooted
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...fancy. Lugging a knapsack with apple seeds into the wilderness about 1800, Massachusetts-born John Chapman for the next 45 years planted his nurseries in inviting places on the Ohio and Indiana frontiers. A dedicated Swedenborgian, he peddled his seedlings and otherworldly chatter among the settlers, wearing rags, walking barefoot even on ice, sleeping on hearths or in hollow logs, and sharing what little he had with white folks, Indians and the birds of the air. Before he died at 70, near Ft. Wayne, Ind., his fame was already spreading beyond the banks of the Maumee and the Mohican where...
This is the passing arm of Barefoot Bill Beagle, the quarterback who only last week set an Ivy record for pass completions in a single game. Beagle connected on 14 out of 26 attempts against Colgate for a total of 225 yards. But Dartmouth lost the game...
...boys said yes. "Have you watered?" They said yes. Then all three started off to the farm on foot. Once outside town, grandfather stopped and took off his boots-"for thrift," as he explained, since they were the only pair he had-and walked the rest of the way barefoot...
When the old man himself reached the farm, he was barefoot, and carrying no boots. He had sold his only pair for $13, which he stiffly handed to Harry with strict instructions...
...They achieved something rarer: honesty which may transcend art. The heart of summer, the gleam of flesh against green foliage, are conveyed in Eakins' Swimming Hole. And a man looking at Snap the Whip can remember what it felt like to get out of school and run barefoot on the grass...