Word: leatherizing
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...bigots like Colonel Loughlin who are responsible for the kakistocratic rule that pervades in the South and in Russia. Whose side did the colonel fight for, and from what kind of chair-plush, leather, or reclining...
...salute one day last week heralded the arrival of a green leather-bound volume at the opening of Brazil's Congress. The book contained President Juscelino Kubitschek's 294-page state of the nation message. Its tone, as a House of Deputies secretary droned it out, in summary, was proud and hopeful...
...Glitter Gulch" on the squalid South Side. There, in dives that were "wilder than any television western," Reporter Browning set out to stalk and observe a species "whose customs and culture-patterns are as incomprehensible to us as dial telephones are to them." The men mostly sport Levis, black leather jackets and "Presley sideburns"; the women go in for sleazy skirts or slacks. The sure signs of the hillbilly, male or female, as observed by Reporter Browning, were "shoulder-length bobs (slightly matted, heavily greased) and bubble...
...York's 25-member city council was badgered into an unprecedented special session this week because of the insistent door-pounding of a short (5 ft. 7½in.), scurrying radio-TV reporter who feels there is nothing wrong with electronic journalism that a lot of shoe-leather reporting cannot cure...
...loudspeaker crackled in the crisp mountain air: "The next runner will be Bibbia." On a Swiss hilltop high above St. Moritz, Nino Bibbia, 35, a brawny Italian grocer, buckled on his crash helmet and goggles, carefully checked the heavy leather pads on his knees and elbows. He adjusted steel shields that guarded the back of each hand, then he threw himself onto a sled no bigger (3½ ft.) than a youngster's Flexible Flyer...