Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...streets, 913 feet below the crash area, jagged bits of wings, hunks of metal and stone fell as far as five blocks away...
...Black took a look. Then, murmuring soothingly, he flicked a metal instrument that looked something like a small pneumatic drill past Mr. Tucker's suspicious eyes and went to work. But Mr. Tucker just relaxed. He felt no jarring, no pressure, no buzzing. Few, if any, of Dr. Black's fingers were in his mouth at any one time. All Patient Tucker felt was an occasional tiny, cool jet of air. When the session was over, he rushed out of the dentist's office to tell people that the days of the buzzing, overheating dentist...
Eleven-year-old John Muir came to Wisconsin with his Scottish immigrant parents in 1849, worked hard on the family farm. In his spare time he built from wood and metal scraps a series of locks, clocks and other gadgets that were much admired by curious neighbors. At 22 he went to the State Fair at Madison to exhibit an "early rising machine" that dumped its victims out of bed with split-second accuracy. His next stop was the University of Wisconsin, where fellow students crowded his room to see such contraptions as his "student desk," which whirred and banged...
...playing football, and he had a sort of double elbow on his left arm from an old injury (a fellow pilot dove a seaplane at him and hit the arm with a wingtip float). On the Ti they used to say of Dixie: "He's got so much metal in him the ship's compass follows him when he walks across the deck...
...stretch of New Guinea jungle, last week presented another royal scion-the Duke of Gloucester, brother of Britain's King George VI and Governor-General of Australia. The King wore a headdress of cassowary plumes fixed to tambu shells, from which dangled bits of wood and metal from a wrecked airplane...