Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...officers were equipped with riot gear, including acid-proof black coveralls, helmets, masks, shields, and a baton...
Doherty says the officers found it necessary to use the baton which was part of their riot gear. He says this club was used "to keep the crowds moving...
...specialized gear and tactical training, Doherty says that from his perspective at the time, "I didn't think we were successful at all. But I couldn't account for the other police departments. I know that we were separating them, then we moved someplace else, then we'd come back and start again...
...experiment to determine the relative superficiality of gay females vs. straight males, or something like that. The punch line: well, there isn't one, really. Our social scientist is eventually recognized by a patron as Toby Young, a 35-year-old writer for the men's magazine Gear. Young denies being on assignment ("Not me. My name is Jennifer"), makes an abrupt exit and goes home to recount his experience in a piece titled "I Was a Lesbian for a Night...
...this element of teenage pranksterism and boorish humor--combined with pictures of women in the sort of bathing suits that would remain on for a millisecond were they ever deployed for actual bathing--that typifies the new breed of men's magazines, among them Gear and Maxim. The latter has become so popular with its twentysomething male audience that it recently spawned an even more vulgar offshoot called Stuff. Stuff endorses products like Belcher soda and flaunts cover lines that leave no doubt about how far the magazine will go to capitalize on feelings of hostility men may possess toward...