Word: leatherizing
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...ordinary fatigue uniform and cap, with a .38-caliber revolver at his side and an old leather map case under his arm, trim, greying General Almond spent the first few days of the week making the rounds of his troops. He inspected the marines in their staging area, chatted with a hundred leathernecks ("What's your name? Where's your home? How long have you been in the service?"), found one who didn't know his rifle number and chided him (it's a military notion that a soldier who knows his rifle number will treat...
...owns Muzak, runs the Encyclopaedia Britannica, and as an Assistant Secretary of State once directed the Voice of America. He hired a helicopter, plastered a big sign on it: "Here's Bill Benton," and went hopping about the state like a man on an aerial pogo stick. A leather-chair type gladhander, he strove for the common touch. At country fairs, he handed out windshield stickers and buttons, told the crowd: "I will say for you ladies that I've had an experience such as you may understand. Men's trousers weren't made...
...Senator Paul Douglas, Chicago Attorney Frank J. McAdams and a man named Joe who did the driving and kept the sound equipment working. Loyal Fair Dealer Douglas, not up for election himself, was campaigning hell-for-leather for his colleague, Senator Scott Lucas. To all good Democrats, the carefully creased, weary-looking Lucas was more than just another candidate. As majority leader of the Senate, he was a symbol of Democratic power. Republican ex-Congressman Everett Dirksen, who was trying to unseat him, had a good chance of doing just that. Scott Lucas had to be saved...
Students will come over the bridge too. Some will walk quickly, whistling a bit, pausing a second to drink from a leather bound flask, pulling a brightly clad girl along by the hand...
...approach to public health is almost the same as that of the British; e.g,, he advocates distribution of medicine made by Western methods and is in favor of injecting people's bodies with poisonous drugs. So revered by Tandon is the sanctity of animal life that he condemns leather shoes, wears rubber sandals...