Word: leatherizing
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...tired, chubby suburbanite was driving home through the outskirts of Detroit. In front of the Methodist Church at Farmington his eyelids dropped, the front wheels fluttered, the car curved, careened, crashed into the back of a parked truck. So died a rootin', tootin', shootin', hell-for-leather buckaroo -radio's Lone Ranger. As founder of the five-year-old Lone Ranger Safety Club, he had broadcast many a strong appeal for careful driving...
...press conference. "All of our prices must not go higher. All prices ought to come down." To keep them down he promised to use "economic sanctions." Specific industries he said he planned to go into are textiles, coal, steel, drugs, chemicals, non-ferrous metals, building supplies, machinery, hides and leather...
...descended by way of England from the early French court ballet. The quadrille, with its basic pattern of four couples forming a hollow square, spread from the original colonies throughout the land, acquired many a variant in technique and nomenclature. But everywhere the dance has a caller, an inventive, leather-lunged, cool-headed master of ceremonies who calls out the figures-swing your partner, dose-do (dos-a-dos or back to back), allemande, chassez (sashay), promenade, etc. As anyone knows who has ever tried it without prior training, a "set" of three different uninterrupted squares can be a confusing...
...tank's commander, rangy, red-haired Lieut. Colonel Frank R. Williams of the Armored Force, was sitting on a 14-inch-square leather seat, bolted to the iron deck, alongside the 75-mm. gun. His head, protected by a yellow leather crash helmet, was pressed against an oblong sponge-rubber rim which framed the eyepiece of an 18-in. telescopic gun sight. Whenever his target centered in the cross hairs of the sight, he touched an electric firing key, watched a 15-lb. high-explosive projectile rip through a framework target tank...
...more lavish entertainments now, no more evenings amusing everyone by mimicking the fat Göring and the thin Goebbels, no more long, lazy conversations about art. And no friendly picnics in Bavaria. His society now must be his soldiers, who he says are "quick as greyhounds, tough as leather, and hard as Krupp steel...