Word: leatherizing
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...House of Commons was crammed to the doors last week as Harold Macmillan faced the grimmest hour of his political career. Grey-faced and hollow-cheeked, the Prime Minister sprawled on the government's green leather front bench while Labor Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell called for a censure motion against the government. Gaitskell demanded Macmillan's resignation and an immediate general election, argued that Macmillan's purge of Chancellor of the Exchequer Selwyn Lloyd and 15 other Conservative ministers "was the most convincing confession of failure which could have been offered by the government." Liberal Party Leader...
...patent leather hats, occasionally glimpsed rumbling down narrow highways or patrolling the ridges of the hills, still maintain Franco's police state. It is a regime that does not keep the nation in chains but covers it like a soggy blanket...
When the new Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences becomes installed in his office in University Hall 5, he will have little chance to sit back in the wide leather chair and relax. The Dean ship is a post involving thousands of decisions...
...Patent-Leather Style. Machine-made models appeared, but they looked fake and felt creepy. Then, a couple of months ago, a synthetic wig made of Dynel was introduced that looked like hair, felt like hair, kept its curl (or coiffure) for months without resetting, and was relatively cheap. Imitators and competitors came up with part-hair, part-nylon models (like the Myerlon wigs, at $35; the acetate, at $10.95), and even with cheap, phony party or swim-cap versions...
...only $150, a second head, though it can't go as cheaply as one, can travel in great patent-leather style...