Word: leathered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...everything. His wife, therefore, was at a loss about what to get him for his birthday. So she consulted the attendant at a local gift emporium. "Why don't you give him a nice smipe?" the helpful fellow suggested. "We have a very fancy one made of embossed leather and brass." "The very thing!" cried the wife in delight, realizing that a smipe was the one thing her husband didn't have. Needless to say, the man was ecstatic over his present, and for a week he did nothing but play with it. He'd go out merrily into...
There was a black patch over her left eye because she still suffers from double vision. Her right leg was encased in a steel and leather brace. Her speech was halting, sometimes garbled. The miracle was that she was alive at all, after suffering three massive strokes in Hollywood last February. In a medical triumph, doctors had saved both her and the baby she was carrying [TIME, March 26]. Now, seven months along, Actress Patricia Neal, 39, was leaving Los Angeles with her family to give birth and continue recuperating at their farm in Buckinghamshire, England. "I may never...
...road test before being delivered to the dealer. Accessories are also grander. For an extra $495, a Cadillac buyer can get a combination heating-and-air-conditioning system that automatically maintains the temperature of his choice throughout the year; for another $141, his car will be upholstered in genuine leather. Continental offers individually adjustable contour seats and a powered trunk lid that is unlocked and opened with a dashboard control. More than 45% of Imperial customers order vinyl-covered roofs for an additional...
...Argentine-born jack-of-all-subversion, a screeching Communist fanatic who raised her nino on Marxist dogma but never had the influence she wanted until her son's rise to power in Cuba, after which she traveled the hemisphere as a Communist Front organizer clad in leather jacket and Basque beret, and forever sporting a pistol-even when she sat down to dinner; of cancer; in Buenos Aires...
...summation-and it was a remarkable exhibition. For more than an hour, he ranted and raved. His statements at times sounded so utterly divorced from reality that some of the jurymen cast their eyes down and studied their hands. Judge Thagard slumped deeper and deeper into his brown leather chair as if by doing so he might disappear altogether...