Word: gearing
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...shirt that reads “Blunder-Bush, Bush Lied 800 Died, Fire that Liar.” They also carry a furtively explicit “Buck Fush” t-shirt—familiar to Harvard students who sport “yuck fale” gear every November...
...sight of the John Harvard statue dressed in Red Sox gear, the chants and screams from excited friends and singing along with the band to “10,000 Men of Harvard”—though not exactly a Red Sox song—were a great experience...
...entrances to the stands, seemingly waiting for a problem to erupt so they could react to it. Outside on Lansdowne Street after the conclusion of the Red Sox’s thrilling 11-9 victory over the Cardinals, the police that I saw were decked out in full riot gear with masks, shields and batons in full view. My friend needed to use the ATM after the game, which was located behind a full line of police officers in riot gear in Kenmore Square. He asked if the ATM was available, to which he got a muffled...
This seems to me analogous to the situation surrounding Victoria Snelgrove’s horrible death. Instead of trying to be proactive and control the crowd by employing undercover officers and a universal police presence, the Boston Police sat back in riot gear and waited for things to get out of control before using a dangerous projectile gun by officers that may have been untrained to use one. In response, Menino blamed alcohol and tried to take the paternalistic response of cutting off drinking altogether...
...lightening flashes intermittently in an otherwise clear sky, a group of more than 200 Marines begins to gear up on a dusty plain outside the Iraqi city of Fallujah. Officers bark orders, directing grunts into their vehicles. Tank drivers climb into turrets and crank up heavy-metal tunes. Infantrymen who moments earlier had been asking about baseball scores exhort one another to move forward. "This is what you trained for, Marine!" "You're the hunter! You're the predator...