Word: powders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...visit some of her own favorite skiing haunts. Gauger, who has had lessons in four languages at ski schools round the world, is a veteran of pulled ligaments, frozen feet and broken bones (foot and leg). When her reporting in Stratton, Vt., was interrupted by 14 in. of new powder, however, she strapped boards to her feet once again and conducted her interviews on the mountain's lifts...
...recent lab analysis of the vault's contents showed that much of the heroin had been replaced by innocuous white powder, while ten pounds had been stolen with no effort at substitution. Murphy promised a tightening of security measures, but he may be closing the barn door after the horse has gone. According to police forms, the officer officially responsible for some of the heroin's removal (although there is evidence his signature was forged) was Detective Joseph Nunziatta, who killed himself with his own revolver last March after being questioned by federal agents. In any event...
...Cambridge Fire Department recommended that powder extinguishers--the only type chemically designed to stop grease fires--be installed in the Harvard kitchens...
Some of it is even funny. One saboteur recently turned loose a box of live cockroaches in Republican headquarters at Manhattan's Roosevelt Hotel. Lyndon Johnson aides reportedly poured itching powder down the backs of demonstrators carrying anti-L.B.J. signs at his rallies-forcing them to drop their boards and scratch. Democrat Leo Marshall, seeking a seat on Pennsylvania's New Castle County Council in 1966, was the victim of someone who sent a flatbed truck carrying a black band and black semi-nude go-go girls into a conservative white ethnic neighborhood, noisily urging his election...
...dance, heraldry and the brewing of mead, a potent alcoholic beverage fermented from honey. All the skills come together at tournaments-staged several times a year by the society's four "kingdoms" -where the guildists hawk medieval wares, including such products as "dragon's blood," a fine powder used in magic potions...