Word: metallic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sukkah consists of a metal frame draped in white nylon, and the structure is constructed in remembrance of the temporary housing that the Jews depended on during their Biblical journey through the desert, said Hillel chair Ethan M. Tucker...
Thank you for your chilling depiction of environmental disaster in Siberia. As a student in Magadan, Siberia, I witnessed leaky oil refineries, toxic-waste dumps at the headwaters of rivers, scrapyards of twisted metal and swaths of clear-cut land: grim testimony to the failure of the Soviet system to care for Siberia's fragile ecosystem. Industrial society seems to lead inexorably to devastation of the earth's northern lands. On America's own arctic frontier, the U.S. Congress stands poised to allow oil exploration of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, something a soon-to-be-released Interior...
...looked up, everything was cockeyed. Directly above him was the broken window the tyrannosaur had smashed. Rain dripped through onto Malcolm's face. Lightning flashed, and then he saw a big head peering down at him and snarling. He heard the harsh scratching of the tyrannosaurs' claws on the metal side of the trailer, then the face disappeared. A moment later, he heard them bellowing as they pushed the trailer through the dirt...
Ferrara is back at the reins of the Crimson offense this season, though, by his own admission, he is a step slower. A black, metal and plastic brace, padded in both the back and front, announces the reconstructive anterior cruciate ligament surgery and months of rehab about which the Crimson signal-caller now seems unfazed...
...trim, no visible seams, a curving, dropped rear deck and a steep, sloping windshield. "We kept trying to make it sleek, sleek and sleeker," says Gaffka. "We wanted to suck the body molding right down over the mechanics as if it were carved out of a single piece of metal...