Word: leathering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bloomer, the private's pledge received widespread publicity and was used by the Government in patriotic posters. Gehring remembers seeing the words framed at a Missouri training camp during his World War II service; another poster is part of a collection in the National Archives in Washington. The leather-bound original rests with Gehring's sister, Doris Roberts of Freeport, Ill. If the President had been able to read on, he would have found that even heroes can be lonely. The next entry reads: "Getting a poor start. At 8:30, still in bed, singing Home Sweet Home...
...Detroit's Urban Cowboy, the most successful C&W spread in Michigan, by truck drivers who tout its charms on their CBs. The Boston area, with a full-time AM country-music station, has about 30 clubs offering C&W entertainment. Mr. McNasty's, a former gay leather bar in Kenmore Square that is now the city's only seven-night-a-week live country-rock place, often has waiting lines on weekends (Slogan: Famous for good clean fun.) A dark, Dantean cavern that waives the $3 to $4 admittance charge for local cabbies (they help spread...
...Wednesday, Iran's erratic parliament finally provided a public flash of decisive action that illuminated the long hostage tunnel. Now members of the Council of Guardians settled into their front-row, red leather seats to observe the historic four-hour debate. Ostensibly at issue was the outside arbitration bill, but the real quarrel was over whether to resolve finally the hostage problem...
...swung again, his right hand sliding the length of the long wooden handle, and kept swinging for two full minutes. His face glistened with sweat. He wore amber sunglasses; earlier he had removed his contact lenses because the flying chips sometimes lodged behind them. In his faded denim shirt, leather gloves, scuffed boots and cowboy hat, he looked fit and even young. His breathing now became a little heavy, and he put down...
...center, a core. It seemed hard to understand, but shouldn't have been. Ono sat behind the desk and John stayed home with the little boy. Julian, Lennon's other, older son, was now a teen-ager who lived in Britain with his mother, but wore leather jackets and jeans, like his Dad back in the days of the Quarrymen, and talked of becoming a rocker. John did not see Julian often, and said recently, "I don't remember seeing him as a child." But Lennon suggested that he had lately wanted to know Julian better...