Word: leatherizing
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...work Maine's north woods wear up to ten layers of loose-fitting clothes. Next to themselves, they like old-fashioned woolen union suits best. They wear heavy wool pants and, topside, pile on sweatshirts, sweaters, flannel shirts, insulated vests, jackets and parkas. They encase hands in leather mittens with wool liners, feet in two pairs of socks and heavy felt liners and rubber boots that do not leak heat. Some people sandwich a plastic bag between two pairs of socks...
...driving force behind Radio Shack's success is Tandy Corp.'s chairman and president Charles D. Tandy, 58, a Texan who attended Harvard Business School, sold war bonds while serving in the Navy, then went into the family leather-goods business at the end of World War II. He bought the small Boston-based Radio Shack chain 13 years ago, when it was $1.5 million in debt...
...reports it has discovered and confiscated 50 refrigerators in cars parked in the Yard and Quad during freshman week. Alberta Arthurs, dean of freshmen, discovers after an investigation that the refrigerators were all owned by newly arrived first-year students. HSA also returned several T.V.'s, stereos, and leather jackets first thought to be HSA property...
...shoot windows out on both sides." He seldom missed, but the affection and the accolades that came his way never turned his head. He belonged, he once said, to "the dirty-fingernail set as opposed to the folk heroes of TV. I'm a working stiff, a shoe-leather...
...sandwiches that Hughes [always asked for when he] was going off on a plane. [Margulis] made up a packet, along with the mandatory bottle of Poland water, and helped Hughes descend from his hideout down the service elevator to the hotel garage. With his snap-brim hat and his leather jacket, the man who had broken the round-the-world flight record almost forty years earlier boarded an old Daimler limousine and went off to relive the joys of long-gone days...