Word: metallic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...exceptionally common. The National Education Association estimates that every day 100,000 students carry a gun to class; another study reports that 13% of all incidents involving guns in the schools occur in elementary and preschools. This month the Los Angeles school district will initiate spot checks with portable metal detectors in many of its schools...
Police say the five young men had come to suspect that Tay, whom they had only just met through mutual friends, was going to betray their robbery scheme and had thoroughly rehearsed their response. According to investigators, while Tay was looking into a metal box (it supposedly contained a gun), Chan motioned to Acosta to pick up one of two baseball bats resting against the wall. Acosta struck Tay in the head, while Chan picked up the other bat and began beating Tay on the head and body. Kang and Choe, waiting in the next room, heard Tay scream...
True believers would rather speak of the miracles they have witnessed: healings, metal rosaries turned to gold, crosses silhouetted in the sun. They faithfully sample water from the farm's "holy well," despite local health warnings that the contents are contaminated with coliform bacteria...
EXTREME HAS FOUND A LARGER FOLlowing beyond the MTV set with acoustic rhythms and four-part harmonies that downplayed its heavy-metal heritage. Now that fans are hooked, though, the group is upping the dosage of metallica. Its latest album, III Sides to Every Story (A&M), not only reminds listeners that guitarist Nuno Bettencourt is a mean riffer but also harks back to the roots of rock opera, taking on epic proportions in the process. Divided into three acts, the album is full of social commentary denouncing war in cynical, hard- cutting tracks. One standout: the haunting Rest...
...Memphis and who moved to California two years ago, where he runs recording studios and studies the teachings of an Indian guru. And then there is Stone, Roger's manager, who favors lobster dinners and snakeskin boots and spent years sharing the road and mountaintop commune of the heavy-metal boogie band Black Oak Arkansas...