Word: dyes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last month in New York City, a 16-year-old bank robber was dashing down the street clutching a bag of stolen cash when it suddenly exploded, spewing tear gas and splattering the young bandit with red dye. Within minutes the bleary-eyed and brightly marked teen-ager was apprehended. His stickup had been foiled by a tiny package that one bank manager calls "the state of the art in bank security systems...
...anticrime packet consists of an electronic detonator, a tear-gas canister and dye, all packed together so tightly that they fit inside the carved-out center of a stack of bills. Bank tellers keep the funny money in their cash drawers and slip it into a robber's bag along with the other loot. An electronic beam at the bank doors trips the detonator as the money is carried outside, and the hidden package explodes within...
...most of the injuries occurred, they were surprised to find that the gusts measured more than 20 m.p.h. Some investigators theorize that these winds had careened off a nearby range of low mountains and swept back across the desert, creating crosscurrents and general turbulence. Said 82nd Airborne Major John Dye: "Desert people have seen the phenomenon before. We had not, even though we jumped into this place four weeks ago on another exercise." The military investigation is expected to continue for several weeks. One grim lesson already has been learned-in the future, more complete wind measurements will be taken...
...Beman, 43, leading him to the edge of the water hazard near the 18th green. Too late. Into four feet of water, said to be inhabited by a sleepy, well-fed alligator, went Beman, camel blazer, tassled loafers and all. Pate then cast Tournament Players Club course Architect Pete Dye, 56, in too. "Jerry made us both look like a pair of awkward storks," says Beman. "Then he makes the most perfect dive you've ever seen. Absolutely flawless form." All wet or not, Beman, pro golfs tour commissioner since 1974, knows good form when he sees...
...phrase with the historian's acuity: "The '20s did not entirely take place in the '20s"; President Ford is "like a relative you have to visit now and then, with nothing much to report. You know, he's still working at Prudential or Tool & Dye"; William F. Buckley's "more right-wing pieces tend to remind me of someone talking extra-loud to a rich relative who must be kept in a good humor. 'Big Government. I said, Big Government...