Word: barefooted
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Preventing infection depends on personal hygiene. Because ringworm most often comes on the feet, one should not go barefoot even in one's own home, never in a carpeted hotel room, ship cabin, or train compartment. At public bathing places, wear bathing slippers. Careful club managers provide paper treaders for guests. Custodians of showers and pools should scrub the floors several times daily. Soap and hot water suffice to flood out trichophyta...
Mahatma Gandhi announced that when he attends the Federal Structures Committee meeting in London next September he will live in an East End poorhouse called Kingsley Hall and will appear before the King barefoot and clad in loincloth and shawl, weather permitting...
...explanations as to why he needed shoes-it being no explanation to wiggle one's bare toes) the next step was to take the card and stand in a slow-moving line of perhaps 500 persons. In the boxoffice would be a clerk, bored and discourteous. When the barefoot man with the card got to this clerk, perhaps after standing in line half a day, he might be told that only women's shoes were left, or the boxoffice window might slam in his face. "Everything sold out! More tomorrow, maybe. Better come early!" Under the Stalin decree...
...allowed to bathe during my entire captivity. I was whipped frequently and driven barefoot across the mountains of northeastern Hupeh. But I was given plenty of rice...
...blazed back. But five were almost instantly killed, the rest surrendered. Grimly the man in the bright yellow shoes barked orders. Part of his men set off at the double, rang the door bells of prominent officials, rushed upstairs and routed them from bed, hustled them pajama-clad and barefoot to the Central Police Station...