Word: tattoo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...activists, however, say the branding is unnecessarily cruel. Protesters marched last week in front of the USDA offices in Washington, symbolically branding one another on their right cheeks with sponges that had been dipped in paint. Some demonstrators suggested that cows could be identified with an ear tag, a tattoo or even a strategically placed microchip. Late in the week a federal district court judge in Rochester, responding to a complaint from the local Humane Society against Agriculture Secretary Richard Lyng, issued a temporary restraining order to halt the branding and directed the USDA to inform all dairymen participating...
Witnesses testified that a Japanese crime cartel called the Yakuza has moved into the U.S. with drug smuggling, gunrunning, gambling and pornography. The members operate under a brutal and feudal discipline and often tattoo their bodies from shoulders to thighs using needles that penetrate a quarter-inch, teaching initiates to withstand pain. One Japanese businessman claimed that four high-stakes casinos are run by the Yakuza in Manhattan in cooperation with the Mafia...
...wife; Madden joins her and her escort, learns that he is a lawyer and that both of them are visiting from California. Madden makes a conversational play for the woman before his memory blacks out. The next morning he wakes up with a hangover and a new tattoo on his right arm; he discovers that the passenger seat in his Porsche is covered with blood. Then the acting police chief calls him in and suggests that Madden move his hidden cache of marijuana before state troopers bust him. When he attempts to comply...
Like 1981's Tattoo You, it confirms that the Stones, in hearty middle age as a band, are on a fresh roll. "Negotiations and love songs," Paul Simon observes, "are often mistaken for one and the same...
...Harvard Yard, across Washington's broad avenues and Pittsburgh's thrusting chimneys, in a thousand towns and villages the bells began to toll. At U.S. bases from Korea to Germany, artillery pieces boomed out every half hour from dawn to dusk in a stately, protracted tattoo of grief...