Word: metalized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ushered by helmeted deputies to two successive steel doors, each manned by a deputy, who peers through a wire-glass window. Pockets must be emptied, purses checked. Handkerchiefs are shaken, contact-lens fluid sniffed, ballpoint pen cartridges removed and examined. Everyone is frisked, and then a deputy passes a metal-detecting device over each person. The deputies themselves are scrupulously searched before every session...
...termed the censure proof of "the moral, political and juridical bankruptcy of the Council regarding the Middle East situation." Tekoah continued, making a justifiable point that most Israelis felt summed up their case: "Is the single life of the Israeli engineer killed in Athens worth less than all the metal and wire and upholstery destroyed in Beirut? Are we to hear that the scrap iron of airplanes is worth more than Jewish blood...
...week's meeting; the U.S. command had flown only four newsmen to the site. The main negotiator for the Viet Cong, a man in floppy hat and khaki fatigues without insignia, had brought along rattan stools, and he motioned to the American delegation, which had brought its own metal folding chairs, to sit down-most likely in the hope of producing pictures to be played against the Paris dispute over seating arrangements. After all, if the U.S. would sit down with the Viet Cong, why should not Saigon? The Americans declined the bait and remained standing, and the Viet...
Home Unscathed. The commandos left behind an expensive rubble of metal. Lebanese authorities admitted to losing all the Lebanese-owned aircraft on the ground at the time, perhaps eleven in number. The Israelis put the figure damaged or destroyed higher, at twelve to 14 planes...
...massacre unfold with numbing predictability. Time and again Olsen describes how people escaped bullets by burrowing under the corpses of their families or playing dead. Once more he indirectly states one of the irreducible lessons of war: that the human body loses its integrity when struck by pieces of metal moving at high velocity...