Word: leatherizing
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British pursuit pilots will still call to one another their sporting "Tallyho" as they sight the enemy and plunge out of formation to attack. The serious Germans will still rasp their guttural "Achtung! Achtung!" as they spot the foe. But the gallant, hell-for-leather professional pilots of the American Volunteer Group suddenly glimpsing a Jap formation will no longer have reason to exchange their gleeful call: "Certified check...
When the heart valves are defective and won't close properly, there is sometimes a telltale swishing as blood eddies back into the heart chambers. A sound like the rustle of new leather is an indication of pleurisy...
Help Wanted. In a Rocky Ford, Colo, newspaper appeared an ad: "If you find a pair of boy's brown leather gloves lost near the library, please call Bobby Smith. You will save me a good whipping...
...barn was full of familiar early-morning smells: the sweetness of hay trampled into moist earth, musty harness leather, animals stirring in their stalls...
...hours her captors tried to make her talk. They flogged her with a leather belt, punched her with their fists. They held lighted matches to her chin. They scraped a saw across her back. They walked her, at bayonet point, barefoot through the snow for hours...