Word: metallic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...loading area would be covered up by metal siding, he said, but would still deface the building
...violence in the streets only worsened the next day. Hampered by strict rules of nonengagement, hundreds of American soldiers found themselves watching helplessly as Haiti's blue-uniformed police and khaki-clad army troops waded into the capital's crowds, swinging metal nightsticks and indiscriminately firing tear-gas canisters. In front of the harbor, the Haitian authorities conducted brief sorties, beating anyone who fell or faltered. They broke up a demonstration by hurtling through the middle of the crowd in a van. One police officer attacked bystanders with a yard-long crowbar, using the tool's hook to gouge...
...game was at New Haven, on one of the coldest days on record. It was so cold that by halftime all of the metal instruments had frozen up," Everett says. "Except for the drummers, whose hands were frozen, no one could play...
...ninth floor, where Judge Lance Ito presides, is a fortress. A visitor must pass through two metal detectors and by a dozen guards to get there. A glass wall separating the courtrooms from the elevator landing is made of bullet proof glass, a guard a guard says...
Researchers in France have developed an electronic transistor that contains no metallic parts. Instead they used paper-printing technology to assemble very thin layers of plastic that mimic the properties of silicon chips. Because plastic is so much more flexible than metal, the devices could theoretically be used to create such futuristic items as video screens that roll up like window shades or bendable computers the size of credit cards...