Word: towel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...MOMENT WAS MORE MARX BROTHERS THAN classic Mafia. Wrapped in a bath towel at his wooded redoubt near Mount Olive, New Jersey, fugitive Anthony Salvatore Casso, 52, one of the nation's most feared Mafia leaders, surrendered -- hands up high, dripping wet -- to an FBI SWAT team. Cracked one agent: "He didn't have his gun in the shower like in the spaghetti westerns." Federal agents say that Casso, a Lucchese family underboss street-named "Gaspipe" (possibly because of his blowtorch safecracking skills), was hated within the crime family because of his penchant for ordering hits simply because a fellow...
Handed a paper towel and a cup of water by trainer B.J. Baker, Betancourt cleaned himself up, while Locker consoled him: "Now you're a real player, Juan. Now you're a real player...
Perhaps the greenest of nations is Germany, where commercial banks will grant low-interest loans for pro-environment projects and hotels urge guests to forgo daily towel changes to save water and energy. Environment Minister Klaus Topfer has ordered the phaseout of cfcs by next year -- two years earlier than most other countries -- and called for a 25% to 30% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions by 2010. The government is investing heavily, having spent $90 million since 1974 on development of recyclable, high-efficiency batteries for electric cars and planning annual outlays of $182 million on solar-wind- and wave...
...Usually in the trunk of a car or quite often in a secret compartment built under the bed of the truck and bolted in. They would come in, and they'd take this wide plastic tape, shipping tape, and they'd tape you up. Then they would wrap a towel around your head this way and over your eyes. You were just like a mummy...
...prospect of a legal donnybrook that would cost more than $1 million. "We knew that some of the cops stood to lose their homes to pay damages if we lost in court," says Kathleen O'Neill Margiotta, then town council president. Last November the municipality threw in the towel and settled...