Word: sprayed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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February 4, 7:05 a.m.--An officer noticed that someone had spray-painted in red and blue letters, "YOUR TAX DOLLARS PAY FOR RAPE AND MURDER IN EL SALVADOR," on the wall of Gutman Library...
...about a Red Brigades plan to attack the congress of the Christian Democratic Party on Jan. 22. Police learned that the Brigades had scheduled the raid for 1:30 p.m., the hour when live television coverage had been due to begin. While about 15 terrorists would throw grenades and spray the delegates with machine-gun fire, according to the plan, one of their comrades was supposed to dash before a TV camera to read a political manifesto to a horrified nation. Police arrested the terrorists who were to launch the attack, and the congress met as planned...
...Japan. Examples abound. An American maker of aluminum baseball bats was developing a good market for his product until the Japanese softball association ruled that his bats could not be used in tournament play. Reason: the label stamped on them supposedly made them defective. Companies selling products in aerosol spray cans complain that their cans must be 25% thicker in Japan than anywhere else in the world. Moreover, the outfit that inspects the incoming aerosol products is a prime Japanese spray-can maker...
...impossible to buy a loaf of bread in Hanover, N.H., this morning. The barber shop and the drug store are closed. Every man, woman and college student in that sickeningly quaint little hamlet has packed his sleeping bag, liter of vodka and can of green spray paint, bundled into his green down jacket and headed south to (and, oh, how I hate this) "Hahvahd" for a weekend of merriment...
...Dartmouth students are good losers or bad losers--they get out of town too fast. Your stereo will be cleaned off, your roommate will have washed off the green, the guy who slept in your kitty litter last night will be gone and he'll take his spray paint with...