Word: leatherizing
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Travel-worn leather bags stood ready last week in a modest Manhattan apartment. Count Carlo Sforza, urbane, white-bearded, was about to begin a long trip home. Sixteen years ago he and his family were hounded into exile by Fascismo's bullyboys, who burned down their villa and might have murdered them. Now, at 70, Italy's distinguished liberal refugee had been granted Allied permission to go home...
...Leather-toughened and calloused by the jungle, wild-haired and wild-eyed, Pacifico Batista a month ago burst from the wilderness where he had hidden 15 years and scared an old crone into hysterics by his mating gestures (TIME, Sept. 27). Last week, from the little Argentine border village of Itacuarare, where Batista was captured by five policemen and an awestruck populace, came a picture of El Tarzan...
...Council, moved into Sir Kingsley's place. Sir John has been the candidate of British finance to succeed Churchill, has immense power on the home front and will continue as chairman of the Reconstruction Priorities Committee responsible for postwar planning. The new Chancellor is as conservative as leather chairs and old claret; an ironhanded Scotsman who battened down recalcitrants in Ireland and India after the last...
...last fortnight an old crone of the village, picking herbs in the jungle, got the shock of her life. Out of a tree leaped a wild, apelike figure. Its skin looked like dark leather; its body was covered with hard corns from tree-climbing; ringlets of kinky hair hung from its chest; fierce white teeth gleamed in its bearded face. To the woman's horror, the creature, which was dressed only in a torn loincloth, approached her with unmistakable mating gestures...
...modern war the Sam Browne is as nonfunctional as the saber. Soon after the outbreak of World War II, both Britain and the U.S. made cloth belts regulation. Officers who had Sam Brownes could wear them, but only for dress occasions, unarmed. Later the U.S. barred the use of leather or brass for belts. Last week London followed suit: the Minister of Supply ruled out for the duration Sir Samuel's shiny military harness...