Word: cordovans
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...seemed to fight for the sake of fighting. During his senior year at Georgetown University, Buchanan was escorting a date home and picked a tussle with two cops. "I stuck a size 10 1/2 cordovan where I thought it might do him some good," Buchanan writes. In addition to receiving a broken wrist, he was booted out of school, his scholarship was revoked, and only a sharp criminal lawyer got him off with a misdemeanor. Pop Buchanan went to the Jesuits at Georgetown and pleaded to make his son's suspension temporary, and they agreed. Pat eventually graduated cum laude...
Where is the center of this thing? A man who learned how fast his legs could move because as a boy he outran cops in Harlem, who worked out in cordovan shoes on the F.D.R. Drive because his father was a cobbler and cordovans last? Does one watch the Olympics to see a spectacle of individuals? A festival of nerve? Perhaps something collective as well. Something. America bursts into song at the torch relay, and 7 million tickets go on sale...
Jimmy Carter had on a dark blue suit and cordovan shoes. No secret mission was planned, other than a jog in the Quirinale Gardens, for which Carter used sneakers. Cordovan with blue is just a part of Carter, a man still vaguely indifferent to, or perhaps even contemptuous of, the color codes of Old World diplomacy, an encrusted ritual built of the minutiae of centuries...
After nearly 3½ years of exercising immense power, Jimmy Carter remains resolutely rooted, in his cordovan wing tips, in Plains, Ga. But the rest of him is not so easy to figure out these days. He has left the U.S. weaker politically, more diminished in international respect, than any President in the 35 years since the end of World War II. Though the centerpiece of this mission is the summit in Venice, the real meaning is a search for some kind of cohesion in the frayed alliance. In personal terms it could be the final test of Carter...
...missed the applause." Who wouldn't, if you had one been El Cordobés, the Cordovan, Spain's foremost matador with a record of more than 2,000 bulls and an unforgettable style of frog jumps and other moves that brought the bulls-and the people-to their knees? In 1972, with no more whirls to conquer, El Cordobés, a.k.a. Manuel Benítez Pérez, retired as a millionaire to a cattle and pig farm. But the quiet palled, and, after testing the ring and his reflexes in a benefit performance last year...