Word: caps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Then they were plucked out of their bizarre yearlong excursion, set down in commercial jetliners, the stewardesses passing among them like sweet American hallucinations, Hefner visions, and dropped out of the sky back into an America that had turned ugly. In Seattle, some pus-gut in an American Legion cap used to greet the boys by spitting at them. "Losers!" he screamed. "Candy-ass losers...
...President William W. Winpisinger bluntly: "The most highly industrialized nation on earth is in danger of becoming a nation of industrial illiterates who do not know how to stop a running toilet, replace a burned-out fuse or identify anything on a car more complicated than the gas-tank cap...
...Chicago Tribune took fans back to the days when the Cubs were fighting for their last pennant (1945) and the White Sox for theirs (1959). Or else the papers had fun concocting elaborate fantasies. The San Francisco Examiner invented a staff writer named "Grant Wheat" (tip of the cap there to the late Grantland Rice) who proclaimed the strike settled on Tuesday and then proceeded to march the teams through a schedule full of offbeat surprises-terrible hitters suddenly erupting in orgies of homers, for example...
...pomp or protocol. Said his brother-in-law, Actor Roger Hanin, who accompanied the President on the familiar trek: "It was just about the same as it always has been?except that there were more journalists this time." Dressed casually in a sports shirt and a navy-blue cap, brandishing a walking stick, chewing occasionally on a twig, Mitterrand made his way up the steep path with the same air of equanimity, quiet confidence and determination that had marked his 16-year pursuit of the presidency...
First team to call pitches from the bench-Detroit, whose pitching coach, Roger Craig, wipes his fingers over cap and face 100 to 150 times a game...