Word: leatherizing
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Then the long review was over. Karl Frank was led to the foot of a tall beam from which dangled a hangman's noose. A heavy leather belt was tied around his chest and two assistants hauled him to the top of the beam, where a white-gloved hangman fastened the noose around his neck. The assistants let go. A mild cheer broke out and was hushed by court dignitaries. Of all the eyes that watched, not one was softened by compassion...
...blue wool lumberjacket, his American work shoes (without socks). When he returned from the U.S. last year (he had been a track laborer on the Santa Fe near Cherokee, Okla.) he brought Margarita yard goods for dresses, and some silk panties; for the children, dresses, shirts, shoes, a leather jacket. He also brought back some new habits, such as washing his hands before meals and brushing his teeth-habits which he enforced on his family as well...
...polls opened early in rural Bavaria last Sunday, but not until after Mass did heavy balloting get under way. Then men in knee-length leather breeches and green felt hats, women in full black skirts and colorful blouses, strolled from the churches to the booths, voted the strongly clerical Christian Social Union top dog in the County Councils, in first returns gave 674,143 votes to 216,950 for the Social Democrats, 34,695 for the Communists and 34,142 for all others...
...Lord Boswell in the 1⅛-mile Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland in Lexington, Ky. What happened reminded oldtimers of such valiant past performers as Display and Exterminator. After almost getting left at the post, Boss Man got going when the race was nearly over, charged hell-for-leather through & around horses in the stretch, won by a neck. Said amazed Eddie Arcaro, who has ridden many a champion: "He's a hell of a horse-when you really dig into...
...great marble-colonnaded, square chamber was filled with Easter Monday tourists. At the stroke of noon, the U.S. Supreme Court Justices seated themselves in their high-backed, black leather chairs behind the long mahogany bench...