Word: striping
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about avoiding what the traffic people charmingly call the "impact zones" that some fear that Los Angeles drivers (those who have not fled town) may be shortly lulled into resuming their ordinary ways. They could even come to the Games. Local newspapers burst with ads for tickets of every stripe, not all placed by overambitious travel agents or venal speculators. Not a few poor fans misunderstood the system or unstrategically overordered and have landed them selves in the ticket-brokering business on a big scale. A brisk market also developed in team pins, something of an Olympic tradition...
...rods, radio signals and a simple but effective method that Walas describes as "throw-'em-across-the-room puppetry." The most complicated gremlin had 60 cables operated by a dozen technicians standing 8 ft. to 10 ft. away; "super-faces" were designed for Gizmo and his gremlin archrival Stripe, with some 36 cables that controlled character movement of eyes, brow, mouth and nostrils...
Carrabino eventually overtook Ferry to become the Crimson's leader from the charity stripe and the nation's second most accurate free throw shooter...
...leaving and we'll let them go quietly," said Abu Khalid, a Druze commander. But in the swirl of Lebanon's sectarian violence, the Marines were dangerously exposed. Even though the Druze and Amal leadership granted them safe passage, there remained the risk that extremists of some stripe would try to interfere with the withdrawal, either out of revenge or for political purposes of their own. No matter how orderly the pullout, it now seemed all but impossible for the Marines to turn over control of the airport to what is left of the Lebanese Army. This...
...refs also spaced out late in the first half, when Monroe Trout was fouled and was to go to the line for two shots. Duncan had already sunk one when one of the officials remembered which player he had sent to the charity stripe...