Word: barefootedness
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Nick was popular and a paradox. On the surface, he was a roughhewn hellion, who prided himself in dressing sloppily, once showed up barefooted for a publicity picture. But Nick also had the squad's best scholastic record and liked to listen by the hour to classical operatic recordings...
U.S. arms, transport and communications equipment. In the ancient walled city of Hue in central Viet Nam, a TIME correspondent last week watched barefooted Vietnamese peasants standing in the General Issue line with mouldy rifle straps, long underwear and heavy shoes dangling from their arms. Across the square, twelve-week...
The Communists issued an ultimatum to village elders: cooperate by Jan. 27, or have your property confiscated. Thais and Muongs began taking refuge behind the French lines. The French recruited them at 350 (good) piasters a month, armed them with rifles, mortars. Soon the French had a barefooted, beret-wearing...
To Caracas, a sedate colonial capital only a generation ago, Venezuela's oil boom has brought skyscrapers, gadgets, gewgaws and plenty of loose cash. Rubbing elbows with barefooted paupers, thousands of new-rich eagerly seek the things that money can buy. Last week in El Nacional, Editorial Writer Manuel...
In the garden of his modern home two miles outside Jedda, Saudi Arabia's shrewd old (60) Finance Minister Abdullah El Suleiman sat down to wait for a visitor. For greater comfort in the muggy 80° heat, he slipped off his sandals. When a U.S. car rolled up...