Word: metalled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them, is a fast-rising Hungarian quisling named Gyorgy Marosan. A flat-nosed, husky ex-baker who once served six years in jail himself for "Titoism," Marosan has now become "the visible one" of Russia's police state in Hungary.* Recently Marosan boasted to laborers at the Csepel metal works: "I am the one who on the night of Oct. 23-24 demanded that Soviet troops should be thrown in." He went on: "Much has been said and written abroad about some arrests. Let us speak about this. Yes, we collected a few hundred persons, and yet what happened...
David Ambo had not been looking for gold at all but for a cooling drink to wash down his dinner. In the creek sand that came up in his scooped hands, the thirsty Kaka tribesman saw the glint of yellow metal. He ran home and told his wife, who returned to the creek with a shovel and an enamel basin. Within six weeks, the shores of Mboscorro Creek were aswarm with men, women and children panning gold dust. Local French authorities moved in, set up a buying agency that had instructions to pay out 170 French African francs (about...
...energy Boron will also lengthen the range. But the Hustler's speed cannot be increased merely by reducing drag or adding to the thrust of its engines. It already flies so fast that the limiting factor on its speed is the amount of friction-generated heat that its metal skin and its three-man crew (pilot, navigator-bombardier and defensive-systems operator) can stand...
...papers with writing in Tibetan and the rare Lan Cha type of the Indie alphabet, raw silk, strips of colored cloth, a chain of silver emblems, a bronze mirror, a faded silken bag made up in the shape of a human stomach containing a bewildering collection of pieces of metal, woods, seeds and beads...
Analysis rapidly disclosed that the written material consisted of charms and prayers; the other objects were symbols, principally of the five oldtime Chinese elements or forces essential to life (fire, water, air, wood, metal). But no document was found to show when Golden Boy had been fashioned, though rough chisel marks on the wood were typical of techniques used in the 10th and 11th centuries. From the statue's contents, the scholars concluded that the first operation was probably performed some 300 years ago by Tibetan monks, who installed a new set of innards...