The oldest example of a leather shoe has been discovered by archaeologists in a cave in Armenia.
Another way you can schmooze is to get a shoeshine, that most ancient and urban of male rituals, with its attendant smells of leather and shoe polish.
The leaker doubtless used the modern technique of the copy machine and shoe leather.
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For decades the labour unions have provided both shoe leather and organisational glue for the Democrats.
"Nobody went down there and really did the shoe leather work and the phone calls that we're all supposed to do, " he says.
"It takes a lot of shoe leather, " says Mr. Salguero, 30, who turned to entrepreneurship after getting laid off from a real-estate development firm.
StatoilHydro and Petrobras are both working the diplomatic shoe leather to get on better terms with Pemex, a state-owned oil company famous for politics and ineptitude.
They include 13 shards of 13th to 14th Century pottery, 70 pieces of animal bone, 22 pieces of roof tile and 68 pieces of leather, mainly shoe soles.
Tucker and I will get to the bottom of it, and we intend to do it by in-depth, old-fashioned shoe leather reporting -- beginning tonight over huge slabs of beef and giant pitchers of beer.
In fact, excellent soft jerky is widely available in Asia, yet for some reason in this country we insist on the texture of shoe leather, with the convenience store bagged varieties giving jerky a bad name.
He is strongest and most original in describing the background to the war, having used a good deal of shoe leather in tracking down the Kosovo diaspora at conference halls in London and lakeside restaurants in Switzerland as well as on rougher Albanian hillsides.
Alison Eighteen is justifiably proud of its rotisserie. (An illustration of a fellow turning a spit full of chickens appears on the menu.) The juicy lamb shoulder arrived perfectly cooked one bite banished all memories of shoe-leather gyros.
Johnson's shoe-leather reporting and keen insights on the struggle of Southern blacks during the civil rights era won him the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 1966, one of many honors showered upon him during a brilliant career that spanned more than 50 years.
But notice that this conclusion depends on the fact that the basic inputs to shoe production leather and rubber, steel and bricks for the factory, and so on are available for purchase in competitive markets.
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The most loquacious shoe in the show is Prada's patent-leather "Flame" wedge of last spring, in STP red.
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The three-and-a-half-inch red peep-toe patent leather pumps - that's something I've never said on the air before - three-and-a-half-inch red peep-toe patent leather pumps are now selling like hotcakes on at least one online shoe site.
The space will have Wenge wood cabinets, backlit glass shoe and purse racks and a center island with a white leather top.
Underneath, seven white shoe boxes were piled, presumably containing the various sizes of the red leather shoes that popes traditionally wear.
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