Word: shoelessness
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...tells you all there is to know about how tough he was, and ever since it has been clear that anyone who bet on a game in which he was a participant would be banished from baseball for life. No one has ever been reinstated, not even the hapless "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, who for years begged Landis to be reinstated and whose cause has drawn support largely because Jackson was illiterate and almost surely had what lawyers would describe as "diminished capacity" to comprehend the consequences of his actions...
...Shoeless Joe Jackson: I’ll help...
There aren’t many people who can claim to be the world’s 1,214th best Scrabble player. In fact, there are only three. Along with a heavy-set woman named Annette Bailey and 66-year-old William P. Kinsella, author of Shoeless Joe (the basis for Field of Dreams), Edgar V. Thomas ’05 is part of that National Scrabble Association-recognized triumvirate...
Teddy’s shoeless ways no doubt conjure memories of some of the unsavory turf we all have had to tread at one time or another in our daily travels. Whether traversing a common room carpet in the aftermath of a 21st birthday party, the floor of any men’s bathroom—especially the perimeter of the toilet also known as the margin of error—or pits of flaming coals and boiling tar, one’s shoes are generally a comforting presence. Teddy, however, would disagree...
...images, of course, will not go away: the planes exploding in flames, bodies falling through the air. And in their wake, more mundane but still disquieting pictures--endless lines in the airports, armed guards watching as shoeless innocents empty their pockets (while across the world people clamor for America's humiliation). To many of us, as the peak vacation season draws near, travel may seem a less appealing prospect than it has ever been...