Word: barefooted
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This week, across the U.S., fresh-water fishermen from barefoot boy to caravan-equipped sportsmen were polishing spinners, varnishing rods, tying flies, oiling reels, patching creels. Some 20 million strong, they were prepared to spend $1 billion on gear, gasoline, guides and other expenses this year in the U.S.'s No. 1 participant sport. Some were already catching fish...
...life and wealth of the Gold Coast is in the teeming South, especially in Accra (pop. 150,000). The streets of Accra look as if half the professional junkmen in the world had set up business there. On the crowded verandas of tumbledown houses, barefoot boys work at sewing machines. The "shops" are mostly tables ranged along the sidewalks, and heaped high with kerosene lamps, loaves of bread, shoes, shirts and suitcases, earrings and patent medicines (a favorite is "brain pills"). There is no color bar in the Gold Coast: its 4,000 Britons (mostly civil servants) dance and drink...
...engaged the Spanish regulars near Camagüey. Dressed as usual in formal black, waving an unaccustomed pistol, Martí charged on a white horse. One of the first of the Spanish bullets smashed through his breast and killed him. He was 42. His death helped turn the uncertain, barefoot rebels into a band of machete-swinging warriors; he became a hero whose fiery slogans were remembered. Three years later, thanks to powerful intervention by the U.S., Marti's goal of independence was in sight...
...eight bills for a barefoot bucket of bolts that was down on its knees with 38 on the clock, and two dozen for a loaded cream puff with a few dings." I was reminded of some more lingo that one might encounter between two used-car dealers when I read your Oct. 13 article on the adman's jargon: "Dog, lemon, roach, bucket of bolts, Southern beauty, Detroit taxicab," etc. (a used car in very poor condition); "piece, piece of iron" (any car); "heat and music" (radio and heater); "bill" ($100); "dozen" ($1,200) "cream puff" (a used...
...ever took "Mike" Pearson for a barefoot boy, least of all Russia's Jacob A. Malik, who once said: "I always listen when he speaks...