Word: barefooted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV decided to seek the pardon of Pope Gregory VII in 1077, he stood barefoot for three days in the snow outside the papal quarters in Canossa, Italy. Gorbachev's concordat with the church was no less significant in its way. But there was a crucial difference: as is so often the case with Gorbachev, he achieved his reconciliation without humiliation. As he had done before, the Soviet leader let the ongoing crisis of the Communist system serve as an opportunity to push his nation toward a broader vision of the future. "We need...
...well-tanned, fine-boned man lounges on a wicker chair in the middle of a vast lawn, the picture of leisure in his long-sleeve polo shirt and cotton twill trousers. A fresh-faced young woman walks barefoot on the beach, smartly / turned out in white cotton shorts and a sleeveless blouse. A square-jawed baby boomer clad in a classic linen shirt and cotton pants gazes serenely along a shoreline as if he is planning a bright future...
Still shakily insecure after the crash of '87, food trendies this year looked for safer culinary havens. They snuggled up to take-out food in the barefoot safety of their own living rooms, or sought out comfort foods (pasta and pizza, meat loaf with mashed potatoes and gravy, creamy desserts) in small, moderately priced Italian trattorias and American bistros. Many of them shunned the lavishly styled and priced restaurants, which in general took an almost unprecedented beating. The beef industry fought back even while the promise of immortality via good health made a superstar of cholesterol- reducing oat bran...
...poorest part of the U.S.," says Tony Zavaleta, a Brownsville sociologist. "We have whole suburbs without electricity, sewerage or running water." Across the bridge in Matamoros, where not even the poorest of the poor get food stamps, Indian women work a line of cars for coins as their barefoot children play on the sidewalk...
...expect a bank employee to be as fearless as Giraffe L.C. Coonse, a high school chemistry teacher in Granite Falls, N.C., who discovered that an incinerator was producing toxic fumes and, over community opposition, shut it down. How many of us could live up to the example of Carrie Barefoot Dickerson of Claremore, Okla., who financed the opposition to a planned nuclear power plant by mortgaging her farm and raffling handmade quilts? None of us, though, should be intimidated, says Medlock. "There's something each of us can do to make the world a better place...