Word: leatherizing
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...explosion in the ditch alongside the road. At the same moment, a Tommy gun chattered from a nearby hut. As the Vietnamese soldiers returned the fire, most of the cyclists, including Champ Soun, dived for the ditches, but Policeman Liem jumped back on his bike and pedaled hell-for-leather toward the finish. The only man to finish the lap, and thus win a prize of 15,000 piasters ($428), he got down from his bike and fainted dead away. "I'm no hero," he told the cheering Vietnamese fans when he came to again. "I just kept going...
...acids and oils in correct proportion to tan them, and still more automatic controls to circulate just the right amount of warm air in drying rooms to finish curing the hides. In the past, it took six men eight hours to tan 50,000 square feet of leather; now two men do a better job 20% faster...
Died. Countess Dorothy (Taylor) di Frasso, 66, fun-loving international hostess; of a heart attack; in a roomette aboard a train taking her from Las Vegas, Nev. back to her Hollywood playground. Inheriting an estimated $12 million from her father, a New York leather manufacturer, she got her title with her second husband, Italy's Count Carlo di Frasso. A fervent believer in the strenuous life, she once hired prizefighters to entertain her guests! joined Cinemactor Gary Cooper on a big-game safari into the African jungle, with the late Mobster Bugsy Siegel set out in a schooner...
After his election, Pius XII received the first "obedience" of the College of Cardinals, each kissing his red leather slipper. During the ceremony, he was heard to murmur: "Miserere mei, Deus [Pity me, Lord...
...Damaged Spirit. "When I was 16 I became increasingly depressed, until I wasn't able to concentrate in school. My mother beat me on my bare back with a leather belt. That night I attempted suicide by jumping from the pier at Long Beach. I was rescued. I turned to another form of antisocial behavior . . . a kind of amateur prostitution. I never received money for it [but] I understand now that I was taking payment in affection and a kind of revenge against my parents. The human need for affection . . . is an overpowering emotion...