Word: metallic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...beach itself is nearly deserted. Only a few sunbathers and lone man and his metal detector were around on a recent weekday afternoon. A favorite pastime of the local seems to involve eating lunch in their parked cars as they gaze out at the sand. Not quite "Beach Blanket Bingo...
...comforters stuffed with wool or feathers. Empty the room, scrub it and everything that is to be returned to it, and thereafter thoroughly clean the room every week. If replacing curtains, hang some that are lightweight and can be laundered weekly. Replace the comfortable chairs with wooden or metal ones that can be scrubbed, keep clothing in plastic zippered bags and shoes in closed boxes off the floor. Talk about suffering...
...METAL DOG TAGS BEARING A SOLDIER'S NAME, RANK and serial number for identification date to the early part of the century, when battles were still being fought with bullets and bayonets. But combatants in today's wars are not just killed, they are sometimes obliterated, dog tags and all. So last week the Army began collecting blood and tissue samples from new recruits, part of an ambitious "genetic dog tag" program that will eventually enable pathologists to identify the smallest tissue specimens by cross-matching to genetic samples stored on file. The Pentagon aims to collect specimens from...
...crew by funding their projects. Ernie C., a friend since Crenshaw High, started a rock band with Ice-T's support. Now they've joined forces to create a new band, Body Count, with Ice- T as the lead singer. Ice-T is a rock and heavy-metal fan of long standing, and, rapid-fire, he rattles off his favorites: Black Flag, Judas Priest, Blue Oyster Cult, Hendrix, Slayer. "I like the aggressiveness and anger of hard rock," he says, and he proved it last summer by appearing with a collection of metal bands on the successful Lollapalooza tour...
...strike because they were angry -- embittered by the swelling cost of unification, furious over rising taxes and indignant at being asked to bear too big a share of aid to the former communist countries in the East. And the anger will not soon subside. Other unions, in the metal, printing and construction trades, will ride the wave of discontent to demand similar increases to offset tax hikes linked to German unification. They probably will win pay raises too, despite the strenuous objections of industrial leaders who predict falling exports and vanishing jobs as a result...