Word: leathered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chinese soldiers of the Ninety-fourtn Army, the men who halted the last Japanese drive in southeastern China last spring, arrived wearing shabby yellow uniforms and straw sandals. They stared at silken gowns and leather shoes. They were bewildered when the crowds cheered them. The men of the Ninety-fourth had never heard cheers before...
...murmur rippled through the tense crowd as the traitor reached the scaffold. The sentence was read again. The executioners lifted him by a leather strap under his armpits into the crowd's full view. They slipped the noose around his neck. Suddenly, in guttural German, Pfitzner half-shouted, half-croaked...
...State industry will be confined largely to heavy industries such as iron and steel, coal, copper, lead, zinc, electrical, chemical and cement . . . power and communications . . . and industries directly concerned with livelihood such as textiles, flour, leather. . . . Private and state enterprise of the same category will be given equal treatment ... no discrimination against private industry...
...made of steel and leather, weighed about ten pounds. On the end of it was what the Army cheerfully calls a "miracle hand"-a black-gloved affair with a thumb and forefinger that spring together when the good arm jerks some leather thongs strung across the body like a conductor's signal cord. The thongs are hard to wash, and the boys say that they soon begin to smell. The arm can be fitted with a pair of hooks with which, after much practice, a man can button himself up, tie shoelaces and lift up to 20 pounds...
...More than 75% of its orders for cotton and wool textiles, leather, lumber, shoes...