Word: leathered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hotel operations on other islands. A low, sleek structure whose two long arms embrace a central lagoon, Coco Palms features local color. Bed-lamp shades are plastic copies of the feathered helmets kings once wore, bathroom basins consist of giant clamshells, and guests are called to meals by a leather-lunged islander blowing into a conch shell. Another Gus-lander development, the 22-month-old Hanalei Plantation, is situated on a promontory that was used as the set for the movie of South Pacific. It is designed for couples who will shell out $50 a day and be satisfied...
Christopher Plantin, a leather tooler of Antwerp, was making a late delivery one night in 1555 when thugs set upon him with swords and deeply pierced his shoulder. Thus crippled, Plantin had to turn to an easier and less muscular occupation; having made many leather bindings for books, he chose publishing. The same year he printed a small volume on etiquette called The Instruction of a Girl of Noble Birth-the first publication of what was to become the greatest printing house of the 16th and ryth centuries...
...after a leisurely stroll through the wooded grounds of Khrushchev's dacha near Moscow that Nikita took Fidel on a shopping tour at the new Moskva department store. Fidel paused at the leather goods display, asked about a belt, but quickly confessed: "I forgot to bring my money." Cracked Khrushchev, who doles out $1,000,000 a day to keep Cuba's chaotic economy from collapsing entirely: "I can guarantee his credit...
Seated nervously in a deep leather chair in the Adams House Junior Common Room, tie unfastened, jacket off, Paul Goodman, literary virtuoso, spoke yesterday as writer and critic to some 60 fascinated and sympathetic listeners...
Reclaimed Boylston Hal still smells lightly of natural wood pancling, leather upholstery, and new rugs, but these scents will eventually be blown out of the building by an elaborate air control system that attacks both from within and without. Separate units dispersed inside give each floor an independent wind and rumble capability. Mounted on the roof are four propellers, which may not be World War II Air Force surplus, yet reproduce the effects of a B-17 warming up in the attic. They impart to the lower floors a pulse beat of a steady thirty-five, which quickens...