Word: leatherizing
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...Milwaukee, home of some 7,000 Americans of Hungarian background, another plane brought a cargo of 73, fresh from the perilous escape across the border. Clutching their cheap cloth satchels, they shuffled gratefully to shelter. One boy, dressed in a knitted hat and an oversize leather coat, carried all his belongings in a paper bundle strapped to his back with brown twine. An old woman proudly displayed the packet of soil that she had dug from her garden...
...more modern taste runs toward the plastic flasks which are unbreakable, although not very attractive. The silver flasks, or the glass ones covered with leather or plaid cloth, are more debonnaire, and more expensive...
...with no Soviet attack materializing out of the intelligence jigsaw puzzle, the President ducked out of the White House for a breather. In his twin-engined Aero Commander he flew to his farm at Gettysburg, donned a brown-and-black-checked cap, a hip-length windbreaker and heavy leather boots, and puttered about in the crisp fall weather "to get some air." Happily he inspected his 20 head of cattle and chatted with the neighbors who accompanied him. ("She's a pip! . . . We ought to hold on to that one for a while until we see how he develops...
...taking over the Guardian's leather-and.-mahogany sanctum, Scotsman Hetherington will find the paper at the peak of its power. In his twelve-year regime, a short one as Guardian editors go, Wadsworth trebled circulation (to 167,000) and challenged the London Times in the influence of its editorial voice. He swept the clutter of classified ads off the front page, launched an international weekly airmail edition (circ. 37,744), watched advertising and circulation spread to make the Guardian Britain's only national daily published outside London...
...pains Reporter Lubell, 44, who has been ringing doorbells since 1948, has been bitten by three dogs, taken for a masher by housewives, a salesman by husbands, and once for a C.I.O. spy. But he has also rung a new bell in political reporting: by combining shoe leather with scholarly insight, he predicted both the Eisenhower victory ("possibly by a landslide") in 1952 and the Democratic recapture of Congress...