Word: leatherizing
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...office in Houston's Shell Building boasts gleaming brown morocco leather furniture, a five-foot tinted photograph of Glenn McCarthy, five bronze-plated baby shoes (he has four daughters: Mary Margaret, 18, Glennalee, 17, Leah, 15, Faustine, 12, and an eleven-year-old son, Glenn Jr.) and Miss Houston of 1945. The ex-Miss Houston, an imperious and well-endowed young woman named Averill Knigge, serves him as secretary...
...Sewell voted Labor. This year he will vote Conservative for the first time. "Labor's greatest failure," says Sewell vehemently, "is that it has not made ordinary working people realize that unless we first tighten our belts and then get down to the business of producing hell-for-leather, this country will go bankrupt and there will be millions out of work...
Fuchs record may not be recognized, however, because of his failure to use the prescribed leather covered ball. For Saturday's throws, Fuchs usd his favorite iron covered brass pellet...
...depressed urgency. Many Belgraders do not feel safe anywhere between their homes and their work; they flit off the streets like ghosts fleeing a graveyard at dawn. Here & there, watching the crowds from street corners or hotel lobbies, stood men either in uniform or in ankle-length black leather coats-which in the popular mind is the unofficial uniform of the dreaded security police, "Udruzenje Drzavne Bez-bednosti," called "Oodbah," formerly OZNA...
Innumerable insights into the heart and mind of the American Fighting Man are provided in the several battle scenes. One by one the maudlin leather necks in Sergeant Wayne's squad soliloquize eloquently on the girls they left behind them, what they are going to do when they get back home, or even Why America Must Fight This Terrible War. Such elocution is invariably the signal for the speaker to be picked...