Word: leatherizing
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Jones' body was marked with slashes and bruises, which Richardson said apparently had been inflicted with a flat object, such as a wide leather belt or a thick plank...
...aluminum can to be taken to "hot cells" with yard-thick concrete walls. There, working with periscopes and tools which reached around corners, chemists would extract the isotopes it contained. All workers wore loose canvas covers over their shoes so that no "hot" particle could lodge in the leather and gnaw a dangerous lesion in their feet. The laboratory tables were topped with three-inch slabs of lead. Neatly stacked lead bricks gave additional protection to workers...
...Jack views the future with equanimity. Last week he reared back in his plush, green leather upholstered office and mused: "I like Westerns best. . . . You know what a Western is, don't you? It's Rin-Tin-Tin climbing through the transom to rescue some beautiful broad. Only instead of Rin-Tin-Tin now, we've got Errol Flynn...
Passenger facilities at airports are usually inadequate or worse. Chicago's is "a slum. Chewing gum, orange peel, papers and cigar butts strew the floor around the stacks of baggage. ... To rest the thousands there are exactly 28 broken-down leather seats. One must line up even for the rest rooms...
When things get too stuffy, this modern chronicler has only to shift his scene from Paris to Warsaw, London to Budapest, from the back room, of a leather-goods shop to the cockpit of a speeding plane. And as if the wonders of the Air Age were not enough, Author Romains has a fine eye for the contemporary intimacy of sex and politics...