Word: loincloth
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...Quakerism. Not all reformers look like Mahatma Gandhi. Some reformers, of a statistical turn of mind, look like Herbert Hoover. The Indian and the engineer once met. Hoover was pleased to discover that each carried the same make of cheap watch (Gandhi's was pinned to his loincloth). "A mark of our common humility," said Hoover. The urge to straighten things out, shared by Gandhi, is what has kept Hoover so busily at work...
Last week he got distressing news. His only opponent in Allahabad, 52-year-old Prabhudatt Brahmachari, who wears a luxuriant grey beard, orange-and red-rimmed spectacles, a saffron robe and a long white loincloth, had been quietly building up the vote. Quietly was the word for it: he had done it without uttering a single sound, except an occasional loud laugh...
...speaker is a short thin (91 lbs.) man with a straggling beard and yellow-rimmed spectacles who sits cross-legged in a loincloth. His voice is persuasive-and his daily average take for the poor is 300 acres...
...them." But Bamu could not be honeyed, she had to be bought. After a full day of hysterical bargaining, Johnson got her on the installment plan. By the time Bamu's family was through with him, they had his umbrella, his wrist watch, all his clothes except a loincloth, and a promise...
...artist, 27-year-old Denis Williams, was no loincloth primitive. The son of a textile manufacturer, he had gone to high school in Guiana's capital city of Georgetown, worked as a postal clerk. Five years ago some of his spare-time paintings caught the eye of a British Council representative, won him an art scholarship in England...