Word: leathering
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There is something different about Dole. He resides in the offices where the grandiloquent Everett Dirksen used to cut deals and drink bourbon. Dirksen was the ultimate Senate creature, as smooth and pliable as the leather chairs in the cloakroom. But Bob Dole has not been captured by his surroundings. He is still off there standing up like a silo on the Kansas prairie. He could be blown down by the political winds. But shouldering against the hot gusts in Washington sometimes builds strength...
...obsessive sportsman, let alone the boneheaded fast bowler. Raised on a sheep and wheat farm, a straight-A student through school in Narromine, in northwestern New South Wales, McGrath was set to become a carpenter until his talent for propelling a 5.5-ounce lump of cork, string and leather carried him to Sydney and beyond. As a cricketing tourist, he's shown an uncommon appreciation for the peculiar attractions of foreign lands; to his wife, Jane, he's the rock that's stood by her through her battle with breast cancer. He's now 35, an age at which most...
...Lowe ’05 knows how to get himself noticed. Whether touring dining halls to promote his new band or posing for H-Bomb in black leather chaps and red chili pepper lights, the 27-year-old British-born senior is always on, according to his closest friends...
...boyish giggle offsets the subdued mohawk and slight trace of black eyeliner that betray his rock-star alter ego. When singing in his new band “Tommy and the Tigers,” Lowe’s costume choices range from a pink lounge suit to black leather pants, and his crisp gyrations, coaxing smile, and lusty vocals draw in audiences. Lowe has been playing to the crowd in one form or another for the majority of his conscious life, and he’s not about to stop...
...played a pivotal role in the secret arms-for-hostages talks with Reagan Administration officials. Rafsanjani acknowledged to TIME that "we made a limited agreement with them for receiving weapons in return for freeing hostages" held by pro-Iranian militants in Lebanon. He received a leather-bound Bible that Reagan sent as a gift through former aide Oliver North, which Rafsanjani says is inscribed with Reagan's signature...