Word: leatherizing
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...devils go, Ghiaurov (pronounced Ghee-ah-oor-ov) was a diabolical con-man full of spunk and fire, swirling about the stage like Batman in a black leather cape and horned-toad cap. And when he sang, the voice came rolling across the footlights like a tidal wave...
Princeton's field-goal specialist, Charlie Gogolak kicked a 43-yarder and four extra points, breaking NCAA records each time he put his foot into the leather...
...their shoes were "held together with wooden pegs," he discloses his complete and puerile ignorance of skilled custom cobbling. For a long time, handcrafted shoes and boots had soles and heels secured by hardwood pegs. This produced a beautiful, unsewn appearance, and the pegs wore down commensurately with the leather, avoiding the damage to elegant floors and the skidding on sidewalks caused by nails that wear more slowly than leather, and thus protrude...
...RAILROAD MAN. Made in 1956, this minor drama owes its vitality to a major talent. Director Pietro Germi (Divorce-Italian Style, Seduced and Abandoned) who also takes on the leading role as a hell-for-leather railroad engineer brought to a dead end by family problems...
...tents steined out Märzenbier last week, but nowhere was it downed faster than at the largest -the Löwenbräu tent, into which 40,000 people a day crowded to hear a 50-piece brass band and watch chesty Westphalian stallions with blue velvet and leather harness and silver nameplates drag in more kegs...