Word: leatherizing
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Every day thousands of parcels addressed "For the guerrillas" arrive in Moscow. Collective farmers of Siberia recently sent 4,000 packages. Each contained kitbag, leather boots, raincoat, tobacco, knives, compass. From the remote Arctic island of Novaya Zemlya came parcels of furs and dried fish...
...Siva, and bears the name of the Primal Energy, Jesus, and Allah as well -the same Rama with a thousand names. A lake has several ghats [bathing-places]. At one the Hindus take water in pitchers and call it ' jal' ; at another the Mussulmans take water in leather bags and call it 'pani.' At a third the Christians call it 'water...
...trouble brewed as soon as urbane, grey-haired Chairman Clarence Edward Groesbeck pounded the gavel to open the company's meeting in downtown Manhattan. Up jumped scrappy, leather-lunged Stockholder Samuel Okin, crying: "This whole meeting is invalid . . . the proxies must be checked." Chairman Groesbeck quickly shoved the gavel into the hands of tall, suave Ebasco President Samuel Wilson Murphy, but the rumpus could not be stopped...
...allowed to tour their building in groups of ten or 15 (except for first-floor visits to pay dues, basement trips to bowl), see a façade of marble and glass brick, electric eyes to signal fouls by bowlers, a cocktail lounge with mahogany bar and deeply cushioned leather seats-a colossus of chrome and indirect lighting. Total cost...
Those who saw Cora Hind on her tours through the wheat never forgot her. A sturdy, schoolmarmish spinster, she wore high leather boots, a cowgirl skirt, flat-crowned sombrero, and a beaded buckskin coat which hung to her knees. This getup was discarded in her later years in favor of ill-fitting riding breeches, shirt and high boots. She carried rubber hip boots in case of rain...