Word: leatherous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...young man in tight blue jeans and tooled leather boots approaches not to buy but to gab. "Say, Jim. You want a full military funeral when Kerr-McGee gets done with you? We'll have to find you a lead coffin so you don't contaminate the cemetery. How many pall bearers you figure it takes to haul a lead coffin...
...possessiveness; and karma, the law of deeds, meaning that each person is responsible for his own past thoughts and deeds and that everyone can shape his future with positive thought and action. Jainists are strict vegetarians because of their devotion to non-violence. As a monk, Chitrabhanu neither wore leather shoes nor rode on any vehicle or animal, since he could have inadvertantly inflicted some damage...
...would think that the high-scoring, laid-buck affair would have affected Harvard's fielding, but coach Alex Nathigian's leather-slappers turned in their third errorless game...
...huge treaty books were ready at last. Bound in gilt-edged blue morocco leather, there were nine copies of the document, one each for each participant in Hebrew, Arabic and English. White House crews had already tended the greening patch of grass at the site of the ceremony, placed a low riser on the spot and then tenderly carried from the second-floor Treaty Room the sturdy Victorian table that had been pur chased in the time of Ulysses S. Grant. Used by the Cabinet up to the day of Teddy Roosevelt, the table had witnessed some important business. Calvin...
...office, high above 47th Street, and dealt with an elderly broker standing before him. The cutter examined a packet of raw stones with his loupe. He shook his head, wrapped the packet up and handed it back to the broker. The old man wearily placed it in his old leather pouch, held together with tape and rubber bands, and produced another packet. The two haggled for a moment in Yiddish and then the second packet was also rejected. That day there would be no sale between the broker, who carried the diamonds around on consignment, and the cutter. The visitor...