Word: leatherizing
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...smuggler-shepherd wandered into a cave, heard the crash of broken pottery, and found at his feet a piece of rotting leather. The discovery soon brought wealth to his people and enlightenment to Biblical scholars...
...incessantly smokes black Sherman's Cigarettellos. He is not married, but unlike many designers who squire their customers to public events, he shuns big parties and nightclubs. Instead, he prefers entertaining small groups in his modern split-level Hollywood Hills house, which he has decorated in austere white with leather-tile floors and classic Mies van der Rohe and Charles Eames furniture...
...lightweight, one-sided brace that allows far more freedom of movement and more natural walking has now been introduced at the University of California Medical Center in San Francisco. The new device is bound to the leg by the familiar calf band of reinforced leather; an aluminum bar runs down the outside of the leg. At the ankle, it is hinged to a semicircular metal yoke that fits loosely around the heel of the shoe. This first hinge-type joint permits up-and-down motion. On the yoke behind the heel is a second joint bearing a metal pin that...
...believed that "the world of appearance is the only one we will ever know." While the existentialist crowds stormed intellectual bastilles, he coolly sat down to write in his luxurious apartment overlooking the Bois de Boulogne, carefully dressed for literature (blue serge suit, quiet four-in-hand, expensive leather carpet slippers). An unabashed Anglophile, he became a one-man diplomatic corps to the English-speaking world; from the Anglo-Saxon point of view, he was Our Man in Paris...
...Youth Alliance's headquarters in Roxbury, I began talking with three Negro boys. Larry told me he was marking time in a general course that did not prepare him for college or a job. As George cut a piece of leather out of the seat to make a slingshot, he said he hated school and everything run by older people. Paul, embarrassed by the conversation, admitted softly that he went to "an educational joke, Boston Trade School...