Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...match, Riggs skylarked around Houston, trying to build up the gate and have some laughs. He beat Dr. Denton Cooley, the noted heart surgeon (the purse: $100 and a free medical checkup, in which Riggs got high marks). He played one of his handicap farces with a Memphis shoe salesman, picking up a fast $100, and then took $300 in a swift one set match from Larry King, Billie Jean's husband. Billie Jean, meanwhile, was training hard by lifting weights to strengthen her ailing knee and by playing tournament tennis against the best women players around...
...have been together with the director, John Vaccaro, for the past nine years. The company performing at the Loeb is one of three resident companies spawned by the original off-Broadway La Mama troupe, one of the consistently innovative forces in New York theater since its inception on a shoe-string budget nine years...
...finally arrived. Worldwide demand for leather is rising faster than the supply of hides. As a result, prices on some grades of hides have leaped as much as 110%. At the same time, worldwide demand for leather is escalating as living standards rise. "Peasants in Africa now buy new shoes every two years instead of every four," Newman says. "People in Eastern Europe want bright, colorful leather shoes and jackets." Footwear-industry analysts expect leather to drop from 62% to 50% of the U.S. shoe market over the next two years. The gap will be divided mainly between poromerics...
...Pont officials profess to be undisturbed by the success of their castoff, claiming they did well to dump an expensive failure. Of course, they might feel otherwise if the Corfam shoe were still on their foot...
...working in the interests of the people of the world, and that is why they burned the Israelis alive with gas in the soil of Germany." (In a cable to U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, September 1972.) "Some Asians in Uganda have been painting themselves black with shoe polish. Asians are our brothers and sisters. If anyone is found painting himself with black polish, disciplinary action will be taken against him." (In a speech in Brazzaville, August 1973.) "I am told that venereal disease is very high with you ... You had better go to the hospital to make yourselves very...