Word: billiards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This century saw ivory become a raw material for industry. In the 1920s thousands of elephants were butchered to meet U.S. demands for 60,000 ivory billiard balls a year and for hundreds of thousands of piano keys. In the 1970s ivory was a hedge against inflation, stockpiled and traded like bullion...
...could hear the noisy arguments from the billiard room and bar next door as I knocked on the door of the ground-floor apartment where she lived. Maritza's Mama let me in. "Your Big Sister's here, Maritza...
...York Giants cap perched on his curly black hair, as he ambles down the beach just feet from the frenzy. "We call it a random-collision process," he says, describing the orgiastic mating ritual of the world's largest population of horseshoe crabs. "It's just like billiard balls...
...effort may be futile, though, unless demand for the animals' tusks is reduced sharply. Ivory is fashioned into everything from billiard balls and knife handles to necklaces and figurines. Craftsmen have even carved tusks into ornamental replicas of AK-47 assault rifles...
...billiard ball, both relative...