Word: barefooted
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...August Saturday afternoon, the scene is a slice of America's Norman Rockwell past. Barefoot children play one old cat and race their wagons down gently sloping sidewalks. Under the overhanging oaks, their fathers labor with hand mowers and rakes. On one lawn up the street, a rummage sale is in progress. Station wagons, laden with children, groceries, dogs and camping equipment, and trailing boats, slide out of driveways, heading north for a week or two at the lake...
...suburb of Bangkok, on Dec. 10, 1968, barefoot and wet from a shower, Merton touched a defectively wired room fan and was electrocuted. His death prompted friends to speculate whether Merton would ever have returned to the U.S. from his enthusiastic plunge into Buddhism. The answer now seems to be yes, though he might not have returned to Gethsemani itself...
...vision of the creation of the world in Fantasia; Pinocchio's search for his father, taking him through the grotesque amusement park on the island of lost boys and into the belly of a whale-these sequences strummed psychic chords that live-action comedies like The Barefoot Executive (1971) do not aspire to touch...
...Finally, who would be more likely to betray the President's trust: a simple, barefoot Wall Street lawyer like John. N. Mitchell, or a slippery Harvard dean like Dunlop...
...rebels wandered in slowly, a dozen of them, rifles swinging from their shoulders like coolie poles. Some had British-made grenades slung from their belts. All were barefoot, but a few wore red headbands that lent their otherwise raggle-taggle appearance a sort of rakish ferocity. Their leader - a slight young man with a goatee and darting eyes - identified himself as Usham Ambihal, 28, a former coconut-farm laborer...