Word: sandal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Here is where they killed one man," said Ansari afterward, pointing to a pile of ashes, a charred shirt, a sandal and a puddle of blood. "They stabbed him in the stomach with a sword and poured kerosene on him and set him on fire while he was still alive." The violence quickly spread to Bhiwandi's slum areas, where Hindus and Muslims live uncomfortably side by side: an estimated 15,000 huts were put to the torch. Soon the rioting spilled over to other industrial towns in the region and to Bombay itself...
...document: a call for socialism to wipe out the inequalities of capitalism and class, coupled with a stinging indictment of contemporary Socialists: "One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words 'Socialism' and 'Communism' draw toward them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex maniac, Quaker, 'Nature Cure' quack, pacifist and feminist in England." Orwell not only sensed the distaste that unemployed miners would feel for such studied eccentricities, he shared the feeling. He also perceived something that was to reverberate in political writings for half a century: ascendant leftist...
Princeton's Zabel projected that robust look of salubriousness. Thick legs, big chest, curly hair, you picture him quaffing a glass of milk and striding about Princeton's hillocked campus, feet sandal-shorn and nostrils flaring to gulp in the spring air. His physical vigorousness translates into an intensely competitive spirit, and the first three and a half games of the two New Yorkers' match filled itself with innumerable let calls and questionings...