Word: tattoo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...kiddie collectibles: cards featuring the U.S. Customs Service's drug-sniffing dogs. The 81-card set, which will be distributed by Customs Service officials nationwide, shows such canine stars as Nacho, Peaches and Solo in action poses. The back of each card lists the dog's breed, age, weight, tattoo number and biggest drug bust ("Nacho led police officers to a building that was found to contain 2,014 lbs. of marijuana...
...meantime, there is a parade of gestures. A tattoo parlor in Houston reports a 40% jump in business, mostly for military designs. A waitress in Rocky Hill, Conn., told her boss he could fire her if he liked, but she would not remove her red, white and blue ribbon. In Pine Bluff, Ark., Deborah Hurt has sent personal letters to nearly 400 fellow Arkansans serving in the gulf. "I had seven brothers; six were in the military, and four served in Vietnam," she says. "I saw what they came home to. I made a promise when I was 16 years...
Patriotism was everywhere. Tattoo parlors were overwhelmed with orders for eagles and Old Glory. In some cities, even the antiwar protesters sported American flag lapel pins next to their peace pins. Said Greg Wald, owner of the All Nations Flag Company in Kansas City: "The first week of the war was like Memorial Day and the Fourth of July combined. It hit like an earthquake." Consumer-watchdog groups, though, warned of con men already hatching heartless schemes. Swindlers in Hauppauge, N.Y., pretending to be cemetery employees, were urging veterans last week to buy graveyard plots before fresh war casualties filled...
...Hofher--the rookie coach with a Cornell Football jacket, Cornell Football shirt, Cornell Football hat, Cornell Football folder and no doubt a Cornell Football tattoo on his Cornell Football posterior--was talking about Cornell Football...
...seems likely that historians will judge him more kindly than many of his contemporaries do. He may even find his way into Poland's pantheon of 20th century heroes, joining Walesa and Jozef Pilsudski as men who marched briskly to the tattoo of their times. "Some time will have to pass before Jaruzelski can be looked at by Poles in a completely objective way," says Professor Adam Bromke of the Polish Academy of Sciences. "But time may work to his credit...