Word: leatherizing
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...When you train for a big run, it's like grating a block of sandpaper along your thigh," Sheffield says. "But by the end of the year you're going to have a pretty wonderful patch of leather there...
...wood casing and picture tube, a process that could be done most cheaply in the U.S. GE quickly shifted its TV-assembly plant from Japan to Indiana, a move that put the division in the black within two years. "Ira's not some hyperintellectual consultant who throws an incomprehensible leather-bound report on your desk," says Richard Miller, who oversaw Magaziner's work at GE. "He goes straight for the nuts and bolts, and examines every assumption from the ground...
Witnesses described the woman as Black, five foot, six inches tall and about 40-years-old, with short hair. She has been seen wearing a black leather jacket and sunglasses. The man, who is also Black and about six feet tall with a thin mustache, has been seen wearing a suit and driving a maroon, four-door sedan...
...with Other Voices, Other Rooms, she pays homage to her heroes, those folk stars who sang to her from her bedside radio when she was a Texas teenager. Some of her honorees even come to the party. Bob Dylan plays harmonica on his almost forgotten Boots of Spanish Leather. John Prine sings harmony on his Speed of the Sound of Loneliness. Arlo Guthrie sings on Tecumseh Valley, by Townes Van Zandt, though not on his father Woody's Do Re Mi. Griffith blends her voice with these and others to bring something new to the old songs and make them...
After his time at the Berkeley School of Music, he joined Lionel Hampton's big-band in New York. "It was like wonderland," Jones said. Jones told the audience that he and his friends often appeared at the back doors of big-name concerts with their leather trumpet cases in hand, to get in free...