Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...listed among the expendables this week--our dog tags have arrived! Of course Elder's displays his COOP instead of file number, Hope lists type blood, and that's L. G., not N. G. Peterson. But barring all holds, Oh Ancient One, we are now entitled to that "metal' pay you jest about...
...years had Vesuvius erupted so violently. In Bari, 130 miles across the Italian boot, daylight darkened with dust, householders turned on lights, chickens went to roost. In the Bay of Naples, shipmasters worried lest quake and tidal wave follow the eruption. Along the road to Salerno, peasants wore metal pots on their heads to ward off falling cinders; ashes 18 inches deep blocked traffic, caved in roofs. But nowhere was the earth's inner wrath more terrible than high on the mountain's scarred slope...
...This is where a bulldozer, digging into a pile of blackened earth, shattered timbers and twisted metal, rolls out the body of a Japanese soldier, recognizable only by the stained uniform...
...complicated device for measuring the smoothness of metal surfaces, vital in metal fabricating, which can be made for one-tenth the $1,200 they now cost...
Joseph Merlin inspected the little metal wheels on his shoes, tuned his violin and shoved off on his rolling, novelty entrance to Mrs. Corneily's masquerade in Soho Square, London. He raised his bow and rolled forward. He found that he could not steer. Neither could he stop. He screamed. Two seconds later, Mrs. Corneily's ?500 mirror was in splinters, the fiddle was matchwood, and Merlin was bleeding like a pig. Thus, in 1760, the sport of roller skating was born...