Word: painted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...excuses herself and goes to the ladies' room ("I'll just freshen up my war paint"), not returning until the man has settled the bill. b) She offers the man a cigar, quarrels with the waiter's addition, pays the check from a roll of 50s and makes a knowledgeable remark about the vicissitudes of the Baltimore Colts. c) She extracts from her ice cream dish a fragment of broken glass brought along for just this purpose. She and her companion complain loudly about foreign objects in the food, and both exit in a huff, leaving the check unpaid...
...received such an affecting tribute. By then Rockwell had outlived his subject matter, a fact that his fundamental decency did not permit him to ignore. "I really believed," he said six years earlier, "that the war against Hitler would bring the Four Freedoms to everyone. But I couldn't paint that today. I just don't believe it. I was doing this best-possible-world, Santa-down-the-chimney, lovely-kids-adoring-their-kindly-grandpa sort of thing. And I liked it, but now I'm sick of it." In the '60s, glimpses of a less Arcadian society surfaced...
They discovered a two-foot by three-foot box three feet below the surface at midfield and disconnected a device that would have triggered fire extinguishers full of paint...
...plan apparently was to attach a battery to the wires which would spring the rat traps which would activate the fire extinguishers which would spray paint the field through hoses arranged to form a yellow "Y," Joyce said...
...only casualty incurred during the discovery of the prank resulted when paint gushed onto the suit coat of John Moran, assistant foreman of property maintenance at Weld Hall, Joyce said...