Word: metallic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...guard at an airport in North Carolina last week. The guard grabbed Wilder by the neck and pushed him against the wall after the ex-Governor tried to read his name tag. Wilder wanted his name because of the rough treatment he got when his suspenders set off the metal detector. Other guards pulled their colleague away. Wilder then left for Virginia; the guard left...
...little concerned, not only because there was very little light and I was using a 300mm lens, but also because our (married) subject was a police officer and presumably heavily armed. I didn't know how he would take the idea of me pointing a long metal object at him in the middle of the night. Unfortunately for Joe and my anecdote (but fortunately for my health), our Rambo/Romeo didn't show up that night...
...slaughter was swift and sure. After prisoners at Serkadji, Algiers' Alcatraz, used sharpened metal bed slats to slit the throats of four guards and attempted a mass escape, government security forces--the Ninjas, as they are called--swept into the prison. When they were done with their work, at least 96 inmates, most of them Muslim militants, lay dead...
...this baby into your HDTV, and you can cruise the Metaverse, wander the Web and choose from among several user-friendly operating systems, each one rife with automatic help systems, customer-service hot lines and intelligent agents. The theater's subwoofer causes our silverware to buzz around like sheet-metal hockey players, and amplified explosions knock swirling nebulas of tiny bubbles loose from the insides of our champagne glasses. Those low frequencies must penetrate the young brain somehow, coming in under kids' media-hip radar and injecting the edfotainucational muchomedia bitstream direct into their cerebral cortices...
...reaches into the milk crate and heaves out a rectangular object made of yellow metal. Mom hauls out another one. She and Dad begin lining them up on the counter, like King and Queen Midas unloading a carton of Twinkies...