Word: leatherizing
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December 3, 1973. Christmas shopping has activated midtown Manhattan. On the same island, downtown and away from the plazas of the Avenue of the Americas and from the leather rhinoceri gifts being handled at Abercrombie and Fitch, a violent force is knocking out a plaster wall, blowing away cinderblock partitions, fracturing a living human skull, injuring three other people and sending rubble and shock waves in all directions. The offices of the Political Rights Defense Fund and those of two libertarian organizations have been ruined...
...supposed to have found water by striking a rock; now it was the site of the last fully intact fortification of the Israeli Bar-Lev Line. The 400 Egyptian troops manning it gave their visitors a rousing welcome. Standing on the ruined Israeli guns, they clapped hands, beat leather drums, danced and sang. "We destroyed their fortifications," one improvised song boasted. "The Israelis fled 'Uyun Musa. We destroyed them...
...judging the Great Society as a whole, the Public Interest analysts have not despaired of the usefulness of federal intervention to improve the quality of American life. What distinguishes them from the hell-for-leather planners of the Johnson era is that they would intervene more cautiously and more experimentally. The writers are skeptical of revenue sharing as presented by the Nixon Administration, fearing that without adequate federal guidelines, state and local governments simply will not direct their programs at those who need them most...
Such hell-for-leather legwork has become almost routine at the Herald, the strongest link in the Knight newspaper chain.* Pulitzer-prizewinning Reporter Gene Miller has the Herald's carte blanche to travel to big stories: the Attica prison insurrection, the Howard Johnson rooftop Shootout in New Orleans, the court-martial of Lieut. William Galley. After nearly three years of digging into Miami operations of the Federal Housing Authority, Herald reporters tracked down the existence of an alleged political slush fund for Florida Senator Edward J. Gurney. Although the paper backed Nixon in 1972, it has kept reporters busy...
...upstaged by something that said a lot more about the music and the people than she, in fire-engine red pants suit and pep talk tones, could say. What happened was that after Freddy Hart and the Heartbeats, with the lights glittering off their sequined seams and tapping patent leather boots had knocked out a few tunes, and after Freddy Hart had invoked the late great Hank Williams and the late great Tex Ritter, and told the audience, with the genuine feeling of the poor boy made good, all of you is real precious to me--then this black...