Word: leatherous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...game is started by a mounted referee who throws a softball-sized leather-covered rubber ball between the opposing players in a sort of face-off style. The play then proceeds for four seven and one half minute running time periods called "chukkars" indoors, and six periods outdoors...
...frequently between Washington and New York in his private jet. Not before the end of the school year will he move his wife Happy and their two young sons to the capital city. But he never makes the trip home without taking along several top aides and a hefty leather bag, which is stuffed with up to 45 Ibs. of vice-presidential paper work...
Betty Ford has turned the presidential bedroom into a family den. "I took all the art off the walls-there's enough of that around-and put up family pictures. I brought in Jerry's old blue leather lounge chair and his tobacco things." After dinner the President works there with Betty keeping him company in the other lounge chair...
...last Thursday, Judge John J. Sirica adjusted his black robe, settled himself in his red leather chair and ordered: "Call the jury." With that began the penultimate public act of the Watergate trial. In ten weeks, the jury had heard complicated and often contradictory testimony from more than 80 witnesses, the playing of 34 White House tapes and the presentation of more than 200 documents. Now it was time for the lawyers' final arguments before Sirica turns the case over to the jury, probably on the day after Christmas...
...Riddle Aeronautical Institute offered Author Richard Bach (Jonathan Livingston Seagull) an honorary degree, he turned it down. "I don't believe in degrees," he said, accepting instead an honorary mechanic's license. Arriving for the ceremonies, Bach cut an unconventional figure on campus, attired in a black leather flying jacket and white parachute-silk scarf. Come January, Embry-Riddle is in for more surprises. Bach, whose most recent book is A Gift of Wings, will teach a 15-week two-credit seminar on "philosophy of flight." The curriculum should elicit gasps from commercial pilots and shudders from airline...