Word: leatherizing
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There was a black patch over her left eye because she still suffers from double vision. Her right leg was encased in a steel and leather brace. Her speech was halting, sometimes garbled. The miracle was that she was alive at all, after suffering three massive strokes in Hollywood last February. In a medical triumph, doctors had saved both her and the baby she was carrying [TIME, March 26]. Now, seven months along, Actress Patricia Neal, 39, was leaving Los Angeles with her family to give birth and continue recuperating at their farm in Buckinghamshire, England. "I may never...
...summation-and it was a remarkable exhibition. For more than an hour, he ranted and raved. His statements at times sounded so utterly divorced from reality that some of the jurymen cast their eyes down and studied their hands. Judge Thagard slumped deeper and deeper into his brown leather chair as if by doing so he might disappear altogether...
...secret police dungeons, mysterious "auto accidents" and "suicides." There were electric chairs for slow electrocution, another many-armed electrical device attached by tiny screws inserted into the skull, a rubber collar that could be tightened to sever a man's head, plus nail extractors, scissors for castration, leather-thonged whips and small rubber hammers. P.A. systems in the torture rooms carried every blood-curdling scream to other prisoners waiting their turn. If Trujillo favored variety, he also favored volume. One October night in 1937, he ordered his army to eliminate all Haitian squatters in the Dominican Republic...
...Daisy's dance floor is surrounded by tables and black leather armchairs that swivel-for obvious reasons. Handsome crystal chandeliers illuminate the bar, an elaborately carved pool table graces a paneled billiard room where baseball's Leo Durocher conducts a highly oral brand of psychological warfare against such regulars as Actor Peter Falk. After the 2 a.m. curfew on drinks (but not dancing), free coffee and fresh fruit are provided. But no other food is ever served and no money changes hands; members sign their bills at the end of the evening. On Saturday nights, the Sunday papers...
...touch, the voyagers found the more southerly Aleutian Islands chain. And Siberia's promyshlenniki (freelance explorers) drooled at the thought of the cargo brought back by the crew: fox, seal and otter pelts. Soon these 18th century venture capitalists, some in flimsy river boats that were bound with leather thongs, were spanning the 1,500 sea miles to the Aleutian fingertip and beyond...