Word: metalled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seat. She leaped through the hole. As she touched the ground, there was a flash of blue sparks, and she crumpled to the ground. In breaking, the tree had pulled down a 2,400-volt power line, left the wire draped as a single-strand shroud over the metal hulk...
Driver James Stowe tested the shell of the wreckage and fired more sparks. To his passengers, Stowe made a grim announcement. If they stayed in their seats they would survive; if they tried to climb out, or touched metal, they would probably be electrocuted. Woodenly, 19 survivors huddled inside, gasped as they heard Melanie Jane whimpering close by. As the lightning flashed they could see the baby crawling back toward the bus. Chicago-bound Eduardo Ramos shouted for her to go back, to stay away. But in each glimpse she came closer. Suddenly, after an agonizing half-hour, there...
Visiting Washington's zoo one afternoon last week with her grandfather and sister, 2½-year-old Julia Ann Vogt of Chilliwack, B.C. squeezed through a metal railing that keeps spectators six feet from the lions' cages, backed away teasingly when her grandfather ordered her to come out, backed up to a cage where a waiting ten-year-old lion named Caesar grabbed the child, clawed her into the cage, and with his mate, Princess, mangled her to death...
...Calder took a good look at the paintings of another friend, Piet Mondrian, and concluded: "Your rectangles should vibrate and oscillate." Then he rushed to his cluttered studio and went to work. When Painter Marcel (Nude Descending a Staircase) Duchamp saw the results -brightly colored compositions of sheet metal, wire, steel rods and wood, moving by use of motors, pulleys or wind -he dubbed them "mobiles." Sculptor Jean Arp reacted by calling the nonmoving sculptures "stabiles." Thus were created two of the best-known terms of modern sculpture...
...Secretary Seaton, who has President Eisenhower's firm support, sees his plan as the only way to keep on good terms with metal-exporting allies, who would be badly hurt by tariffs, while still giving support to hard-pressed domestic mining industries, which have been hit by imports and decreasing demand. Congressmen from Western mining states, who have been agitating for tariff boosts, seem ready to support some form of the Seaton plan, are expected to go alorg with the Administration's request for extension of reciprocal trade. Said Nevada's Senator George Malone of the Seaton...