Word: tip
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...world champion New York Yankees left the diamond at Yankee Stadium following their 10-3 victory over the Detroit Tigers last Thursday night, manager Joe Torre caught the attention of the rookie righthander walking beside him. Torre, with a slight tip of his cap, indicated to the pitcher the proper way of acknowledging the cheers. So it was that Hideki Irabu, who didn't miss a sign all night, took off his cap one more time, held it aloft and waved to the crowd...
...orbit Earth's moon--photographing its surface and taking radar soundings to look for water beneath its crust. If the radar picks up the telltale echoes of liquid, another spacecraft would be sent to land on Europa. Once there it would release a small cylindrical probe with a heated tip that would melt through the ice layer and propel itself through the frigid ocean, looking for signs of life...
...continue in the vein of fairness, it is also true that the stop-sign thieves had throughout their young lives neglected to contribute to any major political campaign. Anyone contemplating a thoughtless act that might end up costing people their life should take a tip from the tobacco companies and start bankrolling politicians who might be sympathetic to their cause...
...here's another tip for anyone contemplating the old stop-sign prank: don't do the sign removing yourself. Call yourself Superior Sign Relocation Inc., and hire others to do the manual labor so you can always point proudly to your contribution as a pillar of the economy and a creator of jobs. And if you wonder how you'll make the money to meet payroll, that's easy: you'll sell the purloined signs, of course, to the millions of homeowners who, like so many of my law-abiding, homeowning neighbors, favor them as decorations for their basement...
...barber got a really big tip that day," Gell said...