Word: metallic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Friday character on Dragnet who was interested in "just the facts, ma'am." His rambling sermon was so defensive that White House staff members started paging one another, asking, "Are you watching this?" A staff member said, "It was like Captain Queeg. All that was missing was the metal balls and the strawberries." He added, "Who would have thought at the end of this, Starr, not Clinton, would have been the one acting like Nixon...
...wonders what Africans made of it all. The gods must indeed have seemed crazy in Wanyange, a cluster of mud huts on the shores of Lake Victoria, where a state-of-the-art metal detector had been plunked down in the middle of the red dirt road leading into the hamlet. The Secret Service deemed Rwanda's memorial to genocide victims, on a hillock at the airport, too dangerous a venue for Clinton's speech on the slaughter. A White House advance woman felt compelled to remind network correspondents that it would be "inappropriate" to deliver their stand...
...batteries, stun rods deliver a series of millisecond-long shocks that cause muscles to contract, leaving the victim writhing and twitching on the ground. In the U.S., for example, Nova Products Inc., in Cookeville, Tenn., sells a Police Special to law agencies that delivers 75,000 volts from two metal tips at the end of the prod. Air Taser Inc., in Scottsdale, Ariz., manufactures an air gun that can zap an assailant 15 ft. away with two fishhook-like darts connected by thin wires to the power unit. Stun Tech Inc., in Cleveland, Ohio, produces an electrobelt that wraps around...
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...blacksmith shop in the busy market town of Keren, Fikad Ghoitom explains the national attitude: show me, don't tell me; ingenuity applied to example; homegrown know-how. Fikad's brother saw a wood-cutting machine in an English magazine and forged one out of scrap metal. Down in the artisans' suq in Asmara, men in blue overalls don masks cut from cardboard to weld new pots from old oil tins and cooking braziers from rusted rods. The clang, hammer, sizzle of makeshift industry are everywhere as boys flatten old iron bars for their brothers to beat into new shovels...