Word: leatherizing
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...Saturday the old man did what he had done for 42 years. In his book-littered office in the Winnipeg Free Press, slowly, with a stub pencil, he wrote the first draft of an editorial. After luncheon he picked up his black, battered old leather bag, stuffed it full of papers and documents, went home for a quiet weekend of reading. On Sunday, Editor John Wesley Dafoe, a great Canadian, was dead...
...fountain was the speaker's son, like him small, wiry, sharp-eyed and swathed in a black cape with a ragged fur collar. The son reached into a pocket and brought out the dog tags-thin oval bits of metal in leather cases. The five men were proud of the trophies. Their story tumbled out in pidgin Eng lish learned 15 years ago when they worked on the Pennsylvania Railroad...
...summer of 1932, while Germany and Russia were still slapping each other's backs, Manstein donned civilian clothes, went to Russia for a look. At the Kharkov station a leather-jacketed Soviet commissar bounced in, offered Manstein vodka and zakuska. While the surprised visitor was gulping the fiery drink, another commissar dashed in, pulled the first one aside. Both then approached Manstein, stuttering, red-faced: "Mistake. ... It was a mistake. . . . We thought you were Comrade Thälmann...
...Lobengula fled only when the battle was clearly lost. By his order, his tribesmen did not follow, lest their spoor disclose the king's whereabouts to the white man. When Lobengula learned that his people had surrendered, he built a great fire and threw upon it the leather ring of his authority, his girdles, his sporran of blue monkey skin. Then he said to the chosen few who were with...
Last week the War Department gave harassed G.I.s better news than a 16-day furlough. The devilish leggings are on the way out. They will soon be replaced by leather combat boots ten inches high. The lower part of the boot is laced; the top part, into which the trouser leg tucks, is neatly buckled. Combat soldiers, long envious of the Germans' comfortable, homely field boot, thought it was about time...