Word: leatherizing
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...1960s Private Eye John Steed (Patrick Macnee) was regularly upstaged in The Avengers on British TV by a sexy tough-Honor Blackman-who wore a black leather pantsuit when things got rough. Later Diana Rigg and then Linda Thorson took over the tough-cookie role...
...military. In Greece, however, there was no program to do this. Instead I opened my own shop. The farmers, the shepherds, would come down from the mountains and I made them shoes to last forever. For $10--in your money--I made them shoes of the best leather and rubber that would last forever...
Since he quit making shoes--with the exception of a few sandals here and there--the focus of Felix's business has shifted to shoe repair; he also sells accessory leather good such as purses and belts on the side, as well as some rather unique footwear. For $5, you can buy a pair of bicentennial red-white-and-blue-saddle shoes, for example. The reason they go for so little, Felix explained, is that trying to get rid of them...
Near another church, a hard-faced Palestinian officer pointed his leather swagger stick at a blood-spattered wall near an abandoned sandbagged bunker. "From now on," he said, "there will be no more forgiving. The rightists used to say that Lebanon would be a graveyard for the Palestinians. Now it's a graveyard for them...
...deeper the racing crouch the greater distance the piston can extend. Arms play no part, except on the turns, when racers swing them metronomically to develop what they call "the slingshot" effect. Skates are a streamlined amalgam of 16-in. blades and ankle-high boots of soft kangaroo leather...