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Finding My Size in a Hungarian Boot Shop
25:02 - 29:47 (04:44)
The speaker shares a personal anecdote about finding boots in her size at a Hungarian boot shop and how it brought a sense of relief after years of feeling like an outsider due to her shoe size. She also mentions the Euro Missile Crisis and the agreement on rejecting intermediate nuclear forces that coincided with her fortunate find.
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The speaker discusses his experience as an exchange student in the Soviet Union during the peak of Perestroika, just after Gorbachev and Reagan signed the INF Treaty, and how language can impact our understanding and experiences of the world.
25:02 - 26:19 (01:16)
Summary
The speaker discusses his experience as an exchange student in the Soviet Union during the peak of Perestroika, just after Gorbachev and Reagan signed the INF Treaty, and how language can impact our understanding and experiences of the world.
ChapterFinding My Size in a Hungarian Boot Shop
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The oversupply of shoes and the high rate of youth unemployment in the UK during the 1980s resulted in sizeable inventory stockpiles in local shops, causing selection limitation to only a few options of the same size and color.
26:19 - 29:47 (03:28)
Summary
The oversupply of shoes and the high rate of youth unemployment in the UK during the 1980s resulted in sizeable inventory stockpiles in local shops, causing selection limitation to only a few options of the same size and color.