Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This practice must end. Although Burke said that the use of rubber gloves is not limited to handling of gay detainees, the Cambridge police evidently assumed that AIDS is spread through casual contact, such as holding down a person's hand...
...rubber match...
Harvard police handcuffed the men and paraded them out of the building past a crowd of spectators. Harvard police and, later, Cambridge police verbally harassed them, and the Cambridge police who booked the gay men insisted on wearing rubber gloves when fingerprinting them...
...likely to get you run over by a truck. First there was the boom box -- big, bad and blaring. But soon Sony introduced the Walkman, the compact musical device designed to be seen but not heard. Since then, sidewalks and streets have been filled with people wearing small foam-rubber circles on or in their ears and expressions of rapture on their faces. Watch out for that manhole...
Noriega obligingly provided it. The dictator had his rubber-stamp People's Assembly name him "Maximum Leader" and declare that American provocations created a "state of war" between the two countries. That coincided with attacks on U.S. servicemen in Panama. There had previously been hundreds of . similar incidents and not all one-sided; in an altercation outside a laundry in Panama City, a U.S. officer, who was not supposed to be carrying a gun, shot and wounded a Panamanian. It is possible too that Washington took Noriega's declaration of "war" more seriously than it was intended. Nonetheless, the President...