Word: leathering
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Sewn onto the garments are flashing lights, tiny chips that play pop music and stuffed toys on springs. Feathers abound, and several kinds of material are used - latex, leather, cotton, satin and more. But Halasa says her favorite is the relatively subdued "mobile-phone thong," which comes with a holder for a cell phone...
Forget the new SUV you crave. Don't even consider that cute leather i-Pod case you saw online. And banish the idea of a splurging for a new barbecue grill, buying an extra pair of blue jeans, or even throwing a copy of Real Simple into your cart at the supermarket checkout. Now think: doesn't a little self-denial sound soothing in this post-holiday letdown? If so, you may be ready for the Compact...
...kind of footage from the execution.? Failure to do so would only open the door to years of conspiracy theories about how Hussein somehow slipped away and remained alive.? By midday, screens across Iraq carried Hussein's last moments.? There was Hussein atop the gallows, surrounded by men in leather jackets and black ski masks nudging him toward a door in the floor.? Fear was plainly all over the former dictator's face as the noose went around his neck in the last of the footage the government initially released...
...candor and originality to the White House, a freshness not seen since Jacqueline Kennedy. She kept the Executive Mansion real. "I took all the art off the walls - there's enough around - and put up family pictures," she told TIME in 1974. "I brought in Jerry's old blue leather lounge chair and his tobacco things." Until her husband succeeded to the presidency, the Fords had never lived in a house larger than eight rooms. Betty took delight in the incongruity of a messy family living in a 132-room mansion. "I looked around [a hectic clan dinner] and chuckled...
...inside this coffin died at the hands of a human tribunal - he was killed by us!" Fuligno said, gripping a worn red leather Bible. "And yes, I say us, and not the Americans. For we are all involved in this story. We don't love enough in this world. Actually, we don't really love at all." For one 13-year-old here at the funeral of the 22nd person to be executed in Texas this year, the explanation is simpler: the death penalty is "something stupid...