Word: leatherizing
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...baseball card collectors in the U.S. today, some make as much as $20,000 a year dealing their wares. At the dozen major annual U.S. trading conventions, the casual aficionado can wander down aisles crowded with tables of cards-some heaped in shoe boxes, others displayed in expensive leather briefcases. The hardcore collectors adjourn to private rooms where big deals among three or more people are negotiated during all-night poker games. "When the hobby started, it was all trading," says Frank Nagy, a 54-year-old Detroit mechanic who in 40 years of collecting has amassed over a million...
...role as international lender is a creation of circumstances and Witteveen, in about that order. The Fund is a giant institution: 131 member countries, substantially all of the non-Communist world; 20 executive directors representing geographic blocs; a Washington headquarters outfitted with teak-paneled walls and leather-tufted elevators. Yet for almost three decades, it was content to monitor the system of fixed exchange rates of member countries. Among other things, it put up short-term cash that nations could use to buy or sell their own currencies, keeping the values within the narrow band specified by IMF rules...
...feeling of look ing at it will be instantly familiar to any one who has looked at the summery Atlantic from a jetty in Provincetown, where Motherwell spends his summers. The blues suggest sea, as the black-and-white configurations of the Spanish Elegies evoke doorways, shadows and leather Guardia Civil hats, without in any way violating their essence as modernist painting...
ITEM: In Boston, the lead singer of the Dead Boys takes a swan dive to the stage floor of a joint called The Rat. He wears a leather jacket and a T shirt decorated with swastikas. He begins to stroke the torn crotch of his jeans with a vibrator. He shrieks, "This is what love...
...corners. Every Saturday she stood on the corner of Tremont and "the well-named" Winter St. through the bitter chill of late 1910 and beginning of 1911. She still has the license as a "hawker and peddlar" (record #955) that she used at that time. And, in a battered leather documents folder she found a picture of herself on an old magazine cover: the clothes were old-fashioned and demure, her expression assured and smiling as she carried a bag over her shoulder full of newspapers. Always, she has maintained this kind of composure and conviction in the face...