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Word: leathern (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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When we got there, up in this loftlike arrangement with great photographers' background screens and a tiny stage, I was greeted effusively by one of those New York fashion ladies with a lovely face and the tan of a Galopagos Islands tortoise. Leathern Petite. "Well, you must be the leader of the Bead Game," she said. She had a way of making it sound as though I was really Genghis Khan and that it was very important that I was wearing an eye-burning Nehru jacket and tan wool bellbottoms. I basked in her admiring glance for a few moments...

Author: By John Leone, | Title: Fading in Rock Phantasmagoria: A Personal Autopsy of the Boston Sound | 1/22/1969 | See Source »

Concluding his address, the Pope warned his leathern-faced listeners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: The Pope in Latin America | 8/30/1968 | See Source »

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