Word: plastics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...produced. Coach Bruce Munro purchased the sticks from Bachrach-Raisin on the squad's annual pre-season trip to Baltimore. Bachrach-Raisin's exclusive source was an Indian tribe on an island in Canada, which maintained a corner on the American market in men's lacrosse sticks until the plastic version became preferred in recent years...
...proved entertaining for a half hour, and then we ran into the airport's only trouble spot-the gift shop. Liz, after convincing me not to buy my sister a pink straw cowboy hat, a silly-looking plastic sculpture of a cowboy, or a coffee mug with "Texas Longhorns" stamped on the side, hugged me good-bye and went off to her plane, not to be seen in Austin for days to come...
...about praying when you aren't religious and about going to the bathroom every half hour to check you underpants, hoping that there will be red, a brown spot. It is about fear and pay phones and pregnancy tests at UHS, urinating into a plastic bottle first thing in the morning and then spending the rest of the day waiting in Lamont until 4:00 when the test results can be called for from the pay phone. It is about waiting on the phone sometimes for 20 minutes until a nurse practitioner is available to announce the results and present...
...lorgnette at sooty skyscrapers. To Kahn, the late multimillionaire Jock Whitney "epitomized, in a world of increasing egalitarianism, the vanishing patrician. "The era of the robber barons, that period of freewheeling economic exploitation that made the Whitneys rich, is over, says Kahn--wistfully, it seems. Hamburger sales under gold plastic arches make tycoons now. The world is a Kroc...
...Plastic toys, combs, pornographic magazines, and shredded tires are all common in the roadside ditches. "Sometimes underpants from both sexes appeared." Shapiro writes, adding commonsensically that the offensive items were "rather frail and gamy items after exposure to desert weather...