Word: paraphernalia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Britain's soccer terraces are fertile soil for the neofascist recruiters. In Spain, ultrarightist youths have combined a fondness for Nazi paraphernalia and street violence with a rabid attachment to their home teams, venting their anger on football-field rivals. In Madrid, local matchups resemble a military exercise, as armed police patrol the grounds to separate hooligan bands. Recently, three members of one Barcelona fan club, who frequently boasted of neofascist opinions, were sentenced to 15-year prison terms for killing a young supporter of a rival club...
...once worked as my cook in Indonesia." Roberto Llamas of Miami thinks the nicked face bears witness to a certain ageless klutziness: "Homo erectus may have been the first creature to use shaving tools unsuccessfully. Homo sapiens, as we find out every morning, is still struggling with shaving paraphernalia 2 million years later." And Scott Hunter McCleary of Arlington, Virginia, wonders why our forefather doesn't look happier: "Even Homo erectus must have had a good day once in a while...
...this effort is expected to start paying off within two years. The club is talking with such Western firms as Seagram's, McDonald's and Pepsi about crucial sponsorship deals. It is also looking to sell Penguin paraphernalia abroad in hopes of winning a chunk of the $800 million N.H.L. merchandise business...
With baseball cards somewhat passe nowadays, these connoisseurs came to the auction to buy genuine, "game-used" equipment and paraphernalia straight from the clubhouse, complete with "letters of authenticity" from experts, family members and previous owners. "The closer you get to the player, the better," explained Leland's chairman, Joshua Evans. "Lots of use is desirable. Our great jerseys have never been cleaned and are all sweaty and dirty." Jackie Robinson's Brooklyn Dodgers shirt from 1949 was carried down the ballroom aisle hung on a gold stanchion, like some saint's relic, and spike marks and bloodstains could...
...Yale's Old Campus, which houses almost all of the college's first-year students, is the Yale Co-Op, the incorrectly pronounced version of Harvard's COOP. Still, the Co-Op has a better book selection, and if you're shopping for a Yale sweatshirt or other such paraphernalia, this is the place. The Co-Op is now the city's largest department store, since Macy's shut down a year...