Word: metalled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shingle home of Railroad Conductor Walter ("Bill") Gregg, 37, cut and bruised Gregg, his wife, his three children and his niece, damaged seven buildings, killed one hen and probably vaporized a dozen more. Within minutes the curious began pouring toward the crater. Kids soon spotted jagged chunks of shiny metal, carted them home in paper bags until Air Force police moved...
...monopoly. There was the shrewd lawyer-diplomat putting his hand over an inquisitive British reporter's mouth or quipping on arrival in London in 1931: "You people have your plus fours. These are my minus fours." In the best sequences, faded with age, there was "your father"-with metal-rimmed spectacles, a big, near-toothless grin, the dollar watch dangling from the dhoti-who tenderly encircled a little girl with a garland of flowers that she had brought...
...says that a laminated layer of Astro-lite two-tenths of an inch thick can protect the nose of an IRBM. For an ICBM, which enters the atmosphere much faster, four inches may be needed. This thickness weighs, says Thompson, only one-fifteenth as much as a heat-resistant metal used for the same...
...Indonesians love peace as well. In the soft scented night each village resounds with the rhythmic, curiously tuneful gamelan music of bowl-shaped gongs, bamboo flutes, metal keys, two-stringed violins. Fluid-fingered dancers will hold an audience enchanted all the night long; wayang puppet shows, telling the heroic legends of the past, run from sunset to dawn. Yet together with the industriousness and mannered behavior of the Indonesian is the wild agony of the amok, when a man for no clear reason will throw off all restraint and race through his village wielding his razor-sharp parang against everything...
Crevasses. Just short of Depot 700, the nearest of the supply stations that Hillary had set up, the vehicles ran into a maze of crevasses. Two of the Sno-Cats, seriously damaged, had to be repaired in cold so bitter that the men's fingers stuck to metal. Beyond the crevasses the going got better, and the expedition reached Depot 700 on Feb. 7. where Hillary joined it by airplane...