Word: foams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Quincy Assassin, an annual event in which ordinary Harvard students are inexplicably transformed into heavily armed, highly skilled stalkers. Their sole purpose: demolishing classmates by shooting them with plastic or foam darts...
...long as it fires a foam or plastic dart out of a neon gun, it's fine," says game organizer Victor "The Woppa" Chiappa '98. "It has to be neon, though...
...first monster wave ate him up. Taylor Knox, a 26-year-old pro surfer, disappeared into the churning foam off Mexico's Todos Santos islands like a rag doll tossed into a washing machine. Then he got another chance. He spotted a second wave, even bigger than the first, and paddled straight for it. As he reached the crest, Knox smoothly swiveled, stood up on his board and started sliding down a slick expanse of water as steep as a cliff. Somehow he stayed in control, even though he flew 6 or 7 ft. through the air so that...
...building $100 million breweries in Moscow and St. Petersburg to capitalize on a beer-thirsty market. This situation is quite a change for Russain beer-drinkers of the cold-war era, who were used to brews containing "water, topped up with detergent to create the impression of beer foam," according to the Moscow Tribune...
...foam party was over, the campus had quieted down, most students were back in their dorms and the police had begun to remove the equipment from the celebration that had taken place immediately following the basketball game...