Word: leatherizing
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Which makes quite a few people grin. There seven tape recorders wrapped in leather on the table. A pitcher of water appears on the table, matching all the glass ashtrays. the glasses. Forty men. wearing ties, fill the room...
...femininity that most people associate with homosexuality. In the 1960s he may be the catty hairdresser or the lisping, limp-wristed interior decorator. His lesbian counterpart is the "butch," the girl who is aggressively masculine to the point of trying to look like a man. Blatants also include "leather boys," who advertise their sadomasochism by wearing leather jackets and chains, and certain transvestites, or "Tvs." (Other transvestites are not homosexuals at all and, while they enjoy dressing in female clothing, may also have women as sex partners...
...Elephant breakfast-food kernels, which pop into animal shapes when milk is added. Foster D. Snell, Inc., which is under contract to several large food firms, is developing meatless ham made of vegetable protein, cholesterol-free eggs, and orange juice without citric acid. The firm also concocts scents for leather products and other goods. "The biggest lure after sight is smell," says Vice President Kurt S. Konigsbacher...
...sure of avoiding a conflict. General Foods recently started test-marketing a snack product called Pringle's Pop Chips only to discover that Procter & Gamble was simultaneously testing Pringle's Newfangled Potato Chips. Even greater risks lurk in the slang of foreign languages. A leather-preservatives manufacturer tried to market a product called Dreck-until he discovered that the name means dirt (or worse) in German and Yiddish...
Some shed their leather jackets to reveal sports clothes, leaving their sticks on the sidewalk and tucking their helmets into shopping bags...