Word: leatherous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only fitting that the fair should kick off with the annual Texas-Oklahoma game. This Southwestern tribal ritual more closely resembles a vigorous bloodletting in the Circus Maximus than a friendly athletic contest. Instead of musky wine from handwrought goblets, though, the spectators knock down rye whisky from leather-bound flasks while the hot-blooded young gladiators, as they say down home, whup ole Billy outa one another. Turns out, for the first time in five years, it is Oklahoma that does the whupping. By day's end Texas has lost its first-and second-string quarterbacks, a linebacker...
...since World War II had the House of Commons crackled with such political tension. As the House began a six-day debate leading up to this week's crucial vote on whether to join the European Common Market, members packed the green leather benches on each side of the chamber and overflowed into the aisles. The members on the two front benches faced each other like soldiers lined up for battle, with the pro-Market Tories of Prime Minister Edward Heath confronting the mostly antiMarket Laborites of former Prime Minister Harold Wilson. On each side, groups of party rebels...
...treats (chicken livers, hamburger meat, fish heads) for each good performance, she was taught to scamper through progressively longer tunnels until she was ready to try one of the 300-ft. sections that will be joined together to make the meson lab's tubes. Fitted with a small leather harness to which a strong, lightweight string was attached, Felicia unhesitatingly scurried the full length of the tube. She delivered her end of the string to workmen, who tied it to a swab consisting of a brush and cloth soaked in cleaning fluid. The swab was then pulled back through...
Although the criteria for choosing those privileged 150 are somewhat dubious by present standards, the 1920 version of a clubbie was not a foppish idiot most frequently found passed out in a leather chair at his club. It was presumed that if your last name was Adams and you were a St. Paul's man, you simply were a cut above the rest. This era was before the days of the self-conscious identity crisis, and if for the first 22 years of your life you were constantly reminded that you were born to lead, you generally led. Witness...
Since one out of every six U.S. jobs is directly or indirectly linked to the auto industry, its triumphs could pass along many benefits. Among the principal recipients will be Pittsburgh's steelmen, Akron's rubber firms and U.S. producers of copper, glass and leather. The investment tax credit will probably benefit the construction-steel and excavation-equipment industries to a lesser degree than the computer and machine-tool industries. Reason: with industrial production running at a sluggish 73% of capacity as a result of the recession, corporate planners will be much more likely to use the tax credit...