Word: clothing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cover of the Holy Cross football program, he is clothed in ancient football gear--a leather helmet, a heavy cloth shirt and cloth pants. He is holding a battered ball, the kind Red Grange and his contemporaries used...
...Moscow also has its entrepreneurial legions: 12,000 officially registered "individual laborers" and more than 650 "cooperatives." While a policeman looks on benignly, commuters outside Kiev railway station examine the cloth shopping bags, plastic sandals and odds and ends of knitwear on display in a battered truck. Street artists on the Arbat compete for customers. Gorky Park is alive with the sound of plastic bird whistles, costing a relatively hefty 1.50 rubles...
...consummate dealmaker, had realized there were no more deals to make. He reluctantly left the final decision to Nakasone, leader of the party. The Prime Minister might well have ignored Takeshita's party clout and chosen his rival, former Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe, a politician cut from the same cloth as Nakasone. Finally, minutes after midnight, the verdict arrived: Takeshita would be the next Prime Minister...
...hundred yards down the fire line, Greg Geisen, 32, from Alderpoint, Calif., blasts away at a burning tree with a hose. He wears the regulation fire-retardant green pants, yellow shirt and hard hat, and a dirty cloth is stretched across his mouth and nose. "My wife was crying when I told her I'd be going out," he says, leaning against the force of the water. "But I love it out here. It's just me against this fire." Bill Ream, a 40-year-old from Weaverville, Calif., puts it another way: "I sleep in the back...
...father tells these people he isn't a bank. My reactions are about the same--except that I also wonder how a man of the cloth could be so hard of heart...