Word: plaster
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Last week former Green Beret officer John L. Plaster, who was present in Vietnam when the soldiers returned from the mission in Laos, said in an op-ed piece in the New York Times that sarin gas had not been used. He also disputed the allegation made by CNN's sources that the mission's purpose was to kill American defectors. CNN had quoted one officer on the mission saying he had seen and killed two defectors. Questions have subsequently been raised about his credibility. This officer and a sergeant said they were told by their Montagnard mercenaries there were...
...titantium dioxide, a tried-and-true chemical agent that physically blocks the sun's rays (hence the name sunblock) from reaching the skin, rather than absorbing them, like most sunscreens. You remember titanium dioxide. Like zinc oxide, it's one of those gunky white pastes that lifeguards used to plaster all over themselves. Both chemicals have been reformulated so that they no longer leave a residue. But some people find that these sunblocks clog their pores or feel sticky on their skin, so they may prefer one of the new products with Parsol 1789, like Ombrelle, PreSun Ultra or Shade...
...chained to one medium. He turned out paintings, novels, plays, operas, ballets, film scripts, poems, TV commercials, recipes, roadside billboards, monogrammed handkerchiefs, rebuses, a surrealist comic strip titled Emil the Talking Bladder, and the gigantic, brightly colored mounds that he wittily called Alps--so massive that the plaster of Paris used to construct them had to be poured over four-story buildings, often trapping the hapless occupants inside...
Time and Newsweek fall all over each other to add the best "tech pages" to each issue. Local news stations plaster human-interest stories about the latest "can't-miss" Web site on the five o'clock news...
...workers and students and teachers and soldiers, then more and more, until more than 1 million had assembled there. They set up, in the heart of the ancient nation, their own world within the world, complete with a daily newspaper, a broadcasting tent, even a 30-ft. plaster-covered statue they called the "Goddess of Democracy." Their "conference hall" was a Kentucky Fried Chicken parlor on the southwest corner of the square, and their spokesmen were 3,000 hunger strikers who spilled all over the central Monument to the People's Heroes. The unofficials even took over, and reversed...