America is worried there is fungus on the floor after a million stockinged feet have walked on it.

NPR: 'This American Moment' As Peggy Noonan Sees It

He had stretched out his stockinged foot and dipped his big toe into the water, moving it slowly back and forth, his leg fully extended, for he could only just reach far enough to touch the surface.

NEWYORKER: While the Women Are Sleeping

Viana laughed again and, stretching his leg out farther, dipped his whole stockinged foot into the water and began to move it slowly, heavily around, more heavily than before because now his whole foot that wide, obese foot was submerged.

NEWYORKER: While the Women Are Sleeping

There is as I write broad resentment toward President Bush, and here is one reason: a fine and bitter sense that he has never had to stand in his stockinged feet at the airport holding the bin, being harassed.

NPR: 'This American Moment' As Peggy Noonan Sees It