Word: leatherous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...indoor fifing. Drummers, however, are usually kind enough not to play their instruments indoors; instead they rattle their sticks on the Formica tabletops. Unlike contemporary bands, fifers and drummers shun all modern innovations. Calfskin heads are used on drums instead of plastic ones, and a system of rope and leather ears is utilized to keep the heads taut, rather than metal rods. The fife must be the genuine article: a primitive piccolo consisting simply of a tube (usually wooden) with six finger holes plus a hole to blow across...
...notion of teen-age gangs evokes memories of the '50s, of leather-jacketed youths sporting zip guns and garrison belts, of the Sharks and the Jets in the urban ballet that was West Side Story. To the residents of Chicago's sprawling black ghetto, however, the images are more immediate and far more menacing...
...rather wear the boxes they came in." The bestseller at Bonwit Teller in Boston is a broad-banded, thick-soled platform sandal. The hottest number at Chicago's Thayer McNeil is a dark-stained wooden shoe that turns up at toe and heel and stays on because of leather straps nailed hard and fast over the instep...
...fond of the red patent chunky-toed, chunky-heeled style as they are of the white version; it has a platform as high as its heel and is wrapped over and over with what appear to be Ace bandages. Not all monsters are sandals, of course. Some are sturdy leather brogues with heels extending beyond the back of the shoe; others have tongues that take their licks at the ankles, leaving even the slimmest tarsus looking like a giant redwood...
...omnibus provision authorizes the President to put quotas on any imported products that take as much as 15% of the U.S. market. If the provision becomes law, it could be used immediately to prevent many Americans from buying imported TV and phonograph sets, sheet glass, ceramic tile and leather gloves...