Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Murphy first saw the damaged clapper, it was piercing the edge of the steeple, on a white copper cornice above its brick section...
...only damage to Memorial Church is some minor piercing where the clapper struck the copper cornice-damage still visible from the Canaday courtyard...
...Army as being green. Not until last week, that is, when top brass announced the arrival of an environmentally friendly bullet. It has all the wallop you've come to expect from regular ammo but 100% less lead. Set to be standard issue by 2003, this copper-jacketed killer contains a tungsten core that won't contaminate the water and soil around firing ranges. That way you can leave an unspoiled world for the children of the guy you've just wasted...
Construction will not replicate the tower as itwas when it burned--copperclad and adorned withclocks on all sides. Rather, the building willmirror its 1878 appearance, with colored slate tomatch the roof and a bevy of copper crockets,pinnacles, parapets, fenestrals and finials...
...Lankard wants to stop the building of a road across the Copper River Delta Basin, a rugged wetland where bald eagles still soar. "This is the last refuge," says Lankard. "Our way of life is gone if they build that road." His opponents had better prepare for a long battle...