Word: leatherizing
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Father: No. We need you to keep us in shoe leather. Off you go down to the factory. I'm for a pint...
...portable power system for the artificial heart. For 22 minutes in the afternoon, and an hour later that evening, he was free of the 323-lb., air-driven unit that normally runs the heart, and was hooked up to a small, 11-Ib. device encased in a leather shoulder bag. The portable system worked flawlessly though there were two breathless 3-sec. intervals when the heart stopped beating, as technicians switched from one system to the other. Afterward, Schroeder thanked the inventor of the device, Engineer Peter Heimes of Aachen, West Germany, and shook his hand. Then he asked...
...student in Claverly Hall walked from the bathroom to a bedroom in her unlocked stifle and found a Black male taking her watch and about $15 in cash. She described the suspect as about 20 years old, with a medium build and wearing a black leather jacket, police said. The victim screamed, and the suspect fled, dropping the watch. A police search of the area turned up nothing...
...victim said one of the suspects was about 20 years old, 5'8", 140 lbs., had short hair, and was wearing a black leather jacket and jeans; she said the other was about 5'10", had a medium build, and was wearing a suede tan coat with a fur collar...
...however, not abashed about running after public officials. When archconservative State Senator John Schmitz chaired some hearings on abortion in 1981, Allred presented her testimony and then gave Schmitz a black leather chastity belt. Schmitz, in a press release, later described the meeting as filled with "hard, Jewish and (arguably) female faces" and called Allred a "slick butch lawyeress." Allred did what came naturally, slapping him with a $10 million libel suit. At a subsequent press conference called by Schmitz to discuss Middle East tensions, she showed up to present him with a box of frogs. Cried Allred: "A plague...