Word: plastics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...croaking hiccup which made it sound as if she were trying to cough up a large and unwieldy insect. Unfortunately, she found her shorter, hairier traveling companion a source of boundless levity, and by the time we landed it was all I could do to keep from plunging my plastic cheese knife into...
...incident at the end of October, campus police, not realizing that the plastic guns were fake drew their real guns on several "assassin" players carrying fake guns...
...effort to stop the harassment associated with assassin, however, Wallace said that she distributed a letter last month to the residents of her residential area "to point out the potential dangers of the game." In her letter, she wrote that plastic guns pose a potentially life-threatening situation because they can be mistaken for real weapons...
...facsimiles resemble real guns so much that "it's hard to determine whether they're real or not," said Philip J. Cavanough, associate director of public safety at the university. Unlike versions of the game at other schools, UMass undergrads shoot each other with plastic disks, rather than with water...
Also known as "killer," assassin first appeared on the campus about five years ago in the form of water guns. Playing the game with plastic disks is a recent development according to Wallace...