Word: leatherizing
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...Second Army (headquarters Memphis) commanded by tough-as-leather Lieut. General Ben Lear, to whom divisions and corps are sent for maneuvers...
...enthusiastic if occasionally irreverent : when Actress Cornell tossed herself too quiveringly into her lover's arms, the house roared with laughter. Afterwards the bigwigs trooped backstage. Amid his congratulations, Harry Hopkins voiced a complaint: "No man would say good-by to the woman he loves wearing heavy leather gauntlets...
...without a Bottom. In the jungles with the Chinese were leopards and tigers, pythons that swallowed whole live hogs, monkeys that stole soldiers' food, wolves that howled at night and tried to steal dead soldiers. In the river, said the natives, were little fish with hides thicker than leather; bigger, leather-skinned.fish whose mouths opened and shut like folding doors. Some of the natives, ceremoniously neutral, stalked the Japanese with poisoned arrows; some hunted the heads of unwary Chinese...
...Army soldiers have boots of thick leather, or of greenish-yellow felt, known as Valenkis. Last winter those boots saved them from the fate of thousands of German soldiers who froze to death or were crippled by the cold. This winter Russian boots will walk on the faces of thousands of dead Germans...
...Leather substitutes are made from waste leather fibers bonded with synthetic plastics such as polyvinyl acetate...