Word: leatherizing
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...municipal messenger and janitor for the Italian town of Riese, near Venice, and his mother made clothes for the local farmers and laborers. When Giuseppe walked the four miles to secondary school and back each day he used to take off his shoes and carry them to save the leather...
Producer Guedel is a small, fast-talking man of 40 who conceals his balding head under an ill-fitting toupee, always carries around a battered leather pipe box (full of $1 pipes) and a clipboard for recording his firecracker ideas. He calls each of his employees "vice president," likes to talk about his early years when he wrote glutinous radio shows for a fancy California cemetery. As a partner in John Guedel Productions (with M.C. Art Linkletter), Guedel has grown considerably in the industry since those days. For one thing, his programs are now much livelier; the biggest are Linkletter...
...white man, was filled with reptiles, insects and maiir eating fish, all unfriendly. One night in a grotto a scraping noise awakened Gheerbrant. It was an advancing column, 16 inches wide, of red ants. They had already devoured his belt, half his trousers and were starting on his leather camera case...
...specifications. As displayed for newsmen in Bonn last week, they were enough to send chills down the hardiest mystery-lover's spine. Two were tiny derringer-like pistols, small enough to fit in the palm of the hand. Two were machines of the same type concealed in leather cigarette cases. Fired by flashlight batteries and equipped with expansion chambers to absorb the shock wave, they were almost noiseless, and each was equipped to fire three kinds of bullets: small lead pellets for merely stunning victims, nickeled-steel bullets that proved capable of penetrating 2¼ in. of pine board...
...average Briton, a U.S. soldier off duty is often a pretty overwhelming sight. Lounging on a street corner in blue jeans and a garishly patterned leather windbreaker, the hairs on his chest peeping slyly out of the deep cleavage of an open-necked sport shirt, the out-of-uniform G.I. is an equally distressing sight to more soldierly U.S. noncoms...