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  • BTW although all my kids are in college and I won't hear them whimpering as they go bare-foot in the snow .... what do banks do when you don't pay your mortgage for a year .... or longer?

    The CSMC A-10 American 2009

  • BTW although all my kids are in college and I won't hear them whimpering as they go bare-foot in the snow .... what do banks do when you don't pay your mortgage for a year .... or longer?

    The CSMC A-10 American 2009

  • I'd imagined a sleepy hamlet, with a store and ferry-boat, and a few bare-foot loafers snoozing and spitting in the sunshine, but here was a bustling little industrial community of three thousand souls, with neat houses and workshops, and my first thought was that you'd need a regiment to take this place - and a brigade to hold it, for a less defensible position I never did see.

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • The new tribe is fifty to sixtyish plus women — those same boomers who once went bare-foot, and who knew that any guy with long hair would share her basic values, educational background and aspirations.

    The Boomer Tribe (The Boomer Blog) 2008

  • He also holds a record for dangling from the wing of a biplane, and lists his hobbies as "bare-foot water-skiing, wakeboard, hydro-speed, delta flying and paragliding, snowboarding and aerobatic flying".

    Yves Rossy – Photo Gallery of the Flying Man | Impact Lab 2007

  • Still, ample talent was clearly evident and if anyone needed a reminder, all they had to do was hang around the dirty bare-foot, patchouli drum circle crowd in the north part of the park during the afternoon break between shows.

    Archive 2007-06-01 2007

  • Still, ample talent was clearly evident and if anyone needed a reminder, all they had to do was hang around the dirty bare-foot, patchouli drum circle crowd in the north part of the park during the afternoon break between shows.

    Ojai Day 2 2007

  • Presumably bare-foot doctors were regarded as "workers", not professionals.

    Archive 2008-06-01 Daniel Little 2008

  • This brings the idea of the social construction of social categories into play; for example, does it make sense to imagine that "bare-foot doctors" constituted a profession in revolutionary China, given the strong ideology of egalitarianism that was present?

    Archive 2008-06-01 Daniel Little 2008

  • In the village, bare-foot children kick a half-deflated football between two huts, patched with ragged cloth reinforced with scraps of tin cans hammered flat.

    Archive 2008-04-01 Jan 2008

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