Word: sandall
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...called Turkish coffee which the Turks generally forego in favor of tea], and an impish and affectionate Turk to go with it, four cracked plaster walls, and a swarm of flies. But boy, am I happy. [The kitten with the black nose is now pulling at my sandal strap.] I came here absolutely famished after exploring a slab of rock that once supported a Byzantine castle, which was hell to find. I had a frightfully meager breakfast at the youth hostel this morning at eight. It's now three. There were no restaurants anywhere, so I came here, looked around...
...Franciscan Nick O'Demus, 53, who declines to give his real name, drifted into the sexual leather-goods market nine years ago. A sandal maker, O'Demus was asked by a few customers if he could turn out sexual harnesses. "Pretty soon," he says, "word got around about what I could do, and I found myself with a new product line." Now O'Demus and his partner, Frank Morris, 25, employ 18 people at their Trading Post Enterprises, which grosses $500,000 a year from making bondage materials, whips, chains and other devices, mostly for the homosexual trade, and selling...
...property and businesses, big and small. In fact, Americans will simply be experiencing what people in other lands learned to live with long ago. Says a San Jose physician: "Now I understand why nationals of other countries have resented American investments in their corporations." For better or worse, the sandal is clearly on the other foot...
...shrink from the huge, open-air rallies that are the mainstay of an Indian campaign. In Hyderabad last week, a hail of shoes and stones was aimed at the rostrum as she spoke. None of the missiles struck her, and Indira, unshaken, inquired: "Has someone opened a new sandal shop in Hyderabad? If so, he must be making a fortune...
...Have you got the Uglies yet?" ask the ads for Los Angeles' Jay Jordan Shoe Stores. Jordan's does, including a high wedgie sandal with heavy straps, all in snakeskin, that prompted one potential buyer to say "I'd rather wear the boxes they came in." The bestseller at Bonwit Teller in Boston is a broad-banded, thick-soled platform sandal. The hottest number at Chicago's Thayer McNeil is a dark-stained wooden shoe that turns up at toe and heel and stays on because of leather straps nailed hard and fast over the instep...