Word: leatherizing
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Something, Sweet Something. Many of his colleagues wondered too. To make his point, Churchill heckled, stormed, pleaded, reasoned, even thumbed his nose and stuck out his tongue. From his front-row seat, a few square inches of green leather on the front bench, he loved to distract opponents by rumbling softly to himself while they were speaking, but reacted violently to interruption of his own words...
Once in Washington, he found 500 excited fans waiting at the rainswept airport. But as Barry began to speak, eight leather-lunged clods from George Lincoln Rockwell's American Nazi Party set up a howl. Goldwater's fans swarmed around the agitators from Rockwell's zoo and a fist fight broke out. Goldwater cried: "Let them go! It's really pitiful what young people can do in this country if they have nothing else to do-but it's their constitutional right...
...next morning, the corporation assembles in its paneled Woodbridge Hall meeting room, sitting around a mahogany table in high-backed leather chairs, each bearing an engraved plate with the name of the occupant. No one smokes until university officers and corporation committees present their reports. Then a faint cloud of blue begins to fill the air, while the group politely strives to reach their decisions...
...bordellos stand perfumed cheek by painted jowl, while round-the-clock shifts of whores sit waxen and wooden-faced be hind show windows. Elaborately coifed transvestites in spike heels wobble lumpily along the side streets, brushing shoulders with stewbums in cowboy boots and pale-faced hoods with patent-leather hair. At the Hippodrom, on a lurid avenue appropriately named Grosse Freiheit, bored horses trot in a circle as equally bored equestriennes strip while balancing on their backs. Along the Raper, a tourist can shoot a fake duck, get a tattoo, watch an "intimate" movie in Technicolor, or cheer a brace...
...another year some $530 million in excise taxes that were first levied at the beginning of World War II. Led by Wisconsin's John Byrnes, the Republican members of Ways and Means sought to reduce the 10% levy on jewelry, furs, perfume, cosmetics, watches, luggage and other leather goods to 5% by July 1 and to nothing the following year. With one exception, the committee's Democrats lined up against Byrnes's proposal to defeat it by a party-line vote of 14 to 11. But that is not likely to be the last of it. Byrnes...