Word: metalled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...overage World War II pencil-type detonator, which works by acid eating through metal and is normally timed to explode about twelve hours after setting, had taken around twice that time to work. Informed of the bomb, Harding mused: "That's funny. I slept better than usual last night." He added dryly: "I'm told there's a story-of a princess who couldn't sleep for a pea under her mattress. It puzzles...
Pound for pound, the most wanted metal in the U.S. today is nickel. Last week it commanded the highest premium paid for any metal on the grey market-$3 a lb., five times the going rate. With Government stockpiles and defense users gobbling up 40% of the free world's total output (v. only 10% for copper), automakers alone had to pay out more than $21 million last year in grey market premiums for the precious hardener for bumpers, crankshafts and a dozen other parts. The shortage is so critical that the Administration, while getting out of business elsewhere...
...races that finish at the pool end, however, a possible solution to the judging problem may rest in metal caps, worn on a swimmer's fingers, that would close a low-current electric circuit at the touch. Electricity in the water, though, is more than hazardous...
There were other discrepancies. Bridey described her metal bed in 1804, but Irish authorities said that metal beds did not arrive in Ireland until 1850. Bridey's father's first name was Duncan, a Scottish name that the Irish found utterly incongruous with Murphy. Bridey had spoken of living in Cork in a wooden house, but the houses in that boggy part of the country were almost invariably made of stone. She had spoken of Cork as a "town" and "village," but it was a big city in the 1800s...
...Newcomer. At Gutman's signal the 19 singers performed one by one-a traditionally ample soprano, a baritone who is a sheet metal worker, a petite mezzo-soprano with long blonde hair, no fewer than six tenors (more tenors than Gutman had encountered in all his auditions in Seattle, Tulsa, the Twin Cities and Chicago put together). Almost every singer had got some of his or her basic experience singing in churches; some have sung with Denver's energetic young Greater Denver Opera Association. A few studied at Manhattan's Juilliard school...