Word: leathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...1960s Private Eye John Steed (Patrick Macnee) was regularly upstaged in The Avengers on British TV by a sexy tough-Honor Blackman-who wore a black leather pantsuit when things got rough. Later Diana Rigg and then Linda Thorson took over the tough-cookie role...
...late. As the train pulled into Washington Street Station, the wino clutched the neck of his brown paper bag and lurched through the door. I realized with a quick chill that I was alone, totally alone. Suddenly, as the doors slid shut, a trio of leather-jacketed, acne-scarred youth darted onto the train. The stench of beer and sweat and corruption filled my nostrils. As one of the toughs sprawled insolently across a seat, another flicked his switchblade open and shut in dull, menacing repetition...
...military. In Greece, however, there was no program to do this. Instead I opened my own shop. The farmers, the shepherds, would come down from the mountains and I made them shoes to last forever. For $10--in your money--I made them shoes of the best leather and rubber that would last forever...
Since he quit making shoes--with the exception of a few sandals here and there--the focus of Felix's business has shifted to shoe repair; he also sells accessory leather good such as purses and belts on the side, as well as some rather unique footwear. For $5, you can buy a pair of bicentennial red-white-and-blue-saddle shoes, for example. The reason they go for so little, Felix explained, is that trying to get rid of them...
...deeper the racing crouch the greater distance the piston can extend. Arms play no part, except on the turns, when racers swing them metronomically to develop what they call "the slingshot" effect. Skates are a streamlined amalgam of 16-in. blades and ankle-high boots of soft kangaroo leather...