Word: metalled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...came in a painful week. Two days before the election, he slipped on a slickly waxed floor in his seaside house and cracked a thighbone. Protesting that "these confounded elections are being held," he resisted treatment for a day, finally let surgeons operate and peg the break with a metal pin. But in spite of his troubles, Odría came out of the election fairly well...
Bach for Percussion (New York Percussion Ensemble conducted by Harold Glick; Audio Fidelity). Four familiar Bach organ works rapped out on the numerous wood, skin and metal objects of a modern percussion department. The result has the effect of an X-ray photograph of a flower-barely recognizable, eerie and oddly fascinating...
...student production of Chip the Miner's Daughter, where, as the hero, he shouted: "What ho! The villain steals the gold!" then was slugged by the villain with a bag filled with nuts, bolts and nails. Surgeons had to repair his fractured skull by installing a metal plate above his right eye. Met and married, in 1931, a fellow journalism student, Gladys Hope Dowd. They have four adopted children, including two World War II war orphans (one French, one German...
...mystery and marvel of the 2,000-year-old scrolls found nine years ago in caves near the ruins of a religious community on the Dead Sea, two scrolls shone with a special aura. For these, instead of leather or parchment, were of copper-a precious metal in those ancient times, betokening a message of highest value. Oxidized by time, the copper scrolls stubbornly withheld their secret while scientists puttered and pondered over the problem of unrolling them without crumbling them to powder...
...collection shows, the warriors of the Middle Ages accepted nothing but the best-and the best was cold hammered steel. Messire Olivier de la Marche, Captain of the Guards to Charles the Bold, wrote in its praise: "Steel is the most noble metal-of it one makes war harnesses, swords, daggers and other glaives by means of which-valor is shown by enemy against enemy." The tough steel plate gave helmsmiths and armorers a far harder task than was faced by earlier artisans, who worked in iron and bronze. But medieval and Renaissance craftsmen achieved results that for pure, functional...