Word: holster
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last month of 1985, McNeely's office collected $1,820.65 in fines, double or triple the amount his predecessors usually brought in. Wearing a leather vest, a .357 in a holster and silver conches on his belt, the marshal was going over his ledgers when an elderly woman stuck her head in the door. "This is a $10 fine," she said. "I just don't think this is fair to the tourist. I was only there a little while...
President Reagan once called him the "little dictator who went to Moscow," but when Daniel Ortega strolls around Managua with his two small sons in tow, he looks anything but the strongman. No tassles and epaulets for him, no holster around the waist, no stretch Mercedes. Hatless, in a black T shirt and khakis, Ortega could be any Latin American father except for the security contingent tailing him. Whether by design or by nature, he operates in public like a man of the people. When he travels by car, he is usually behind the wheel, and the car is usually...
Norris takey-on dozens--and dozens-of opening scene. Norris wears red white and blue with a bandana around his neck. His wardrobe includes:- a University of Illinois jersey, a high school varsity letter jacket, and a Shetland sweater with matching holster. One cannot help but be taken with his nearly trimmed, all American appearance just looking at him inspires a sense of patriotism...
...cocksure Fields does not: "I want them to see who kills them." He can taste it. "I'm ready," he deadpans. "I strangled my neighbor's dog this morning. He was only a mutt." A referee in the center of the field distributes to everyone a pistol, holster, carbon-dioxide cartridges, goggles and brightly colored "elimination" vests for those who are shot. Before departing, the referee warns the weekend warriors to be wary of rattlesnakes. Under his breath, Kanew sneers, "You have to distinguish between the snakes in the field and the ones who come to play...
...doubt progress is being made, Harvard, for example, this year tenured three women--increasing its number of tenured women scholars from 18 to 21, The Faculty has also taken a decisive step to holster its long-stagnant Women's Studies program, as it started a search for its first tenured professor in the area...