Word: caps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have forgotten how to do a triple jump, but has retained delicateness and grace. Out of her wetsuit, she puts no one in mind of a frogman. Her light-brown hair falls past her shoulders. "Where do you put it?" someone asked. She laughed. "Part in the cap, part in the suit...
Some of the robbers are rather intriguing. Last year's "Yankee Bandit," so called for the New York Yankees baseball cap he wore during his robberies, invariably broke into a broad smile as he left with his loot. He robbed 55 banks in six months for a total take...
...public in a Western tie and jacket, the first high official to do so since the Cultural Revolution. Like most of China's present leaders, Zhao was brutalized by the Red Guards. In 1967 he was paraded through the streets of Canton in a dunce's cap and denounced as "a stinking remnant of the landlord class." He has come a long way from that parade, and in the process has effected a more substantive revolution of his own. His agricultural reforms as governor of Sichuan (among them: allowing peasants to keep some profits) increased productivity...
...cap the evening, Lyle lit a fine cigar. In his new life, he said, talking to his guests was the part he liked best. He raised his snifter, and when he drank, the snifter pushed his half-spectacles from the tip of his nose to the bridge. When he removed the snifter, the eyeglasses slid back, like a beginning skier on a beginners slope...
Some of the most zealous Buckeye fans are the band members who cap their halftime show each week. While playing the school's fight song, they march out the word Ohio. The greatest honor a band member can receive is to dot the "I" in "Ohio" during the Michigan game. "Dotting the "I" has been a goal of mine for 12 years and to get to do it at the Michigan game is just incredible," says one of this year's co-"I"-dotters senior sousaphone player Brad McDavid...