Word: tails
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There was something instinctively satisfying about the resounding blast of a bottle rocket in a neighbor's mailbox. And nothing compares to the devilish glee of aiming a bottle rocket at a nosy dog and watching it tail him down the street. (Naturally, we made sure he could scamper off unharmed, but we weren't as concerned for the welfare of the ants we rolled exploding tanks over...
...head wind may have been Harvard's enemy, but the tail wind was its good friend. Winds poured into the Stadium from the closed end, ruffling flags, sending balloons sailing out of the open end and sending Harvard passes soaring toward the end zone...
...night's victims, senior citizens ducking for cover in hotel lobbies, and a New Year's Eve when hundreds of Miamians celebrated by shooting out car windows, power transformers and streetlights. A twin-engine Cessna carrying five passengers landed at Miami airport that night with bullet holes in its tail section. Buchanan provides the earth tones pinked over by the producers of Miami Vice...
...white lapel pins bearing the acronym TORQUE, which stands for "Try Our Real Quality United Experience." But on the hidden backside of the pin is a more provocative symbol. It depicts a jet, similar to those in Continental's fleet, with a large screw embedded in its gold-painted tail...
...robots load and unload die-casting machines, trim parts and ladle molten metal. At IBM factories across the country, robots insert disk drives into personal computers and snap keys onto electronic typewriter keyboards. At a General Dynamics plant in Fort Worth, one robot drills 550 holes in the vertical tail fins of an F-16 fighter in three hours. It used to take three workers eight hours to do the same...