Word: metallics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pain at what was done to that one son of America." Shortly before going to Andrews Air Force Base, the President had stopped at Arlington National Cemetery and visited Stethem's freshly sodded grave. Only that morning, Stethem's grave had been a bare plot marked by a green metal stake; cemetery officials hurried to get a Vermont marble headstone inscribed for the visit. Mrs. Reagan set a bouquet of white roses and carnations at the stone, then wiped away tears with a handkerchief...
...extremely farfetched." Had the engine caused a problem, they said, the pilot would have had time to make a Mayday call. Instead, the plane plummeted from its cruising altitude of 31,000 ft. in silence, disappearing from radar screens within a split second. Air India officials ruled out metal fatigue as a possible cause. Others, however, were less certain: Just because the plane was seven years old, said Jack Young, a U.S. investigator, "does not preclude the possibility of some structural failure...
...since become its own Hollywood legend: Adolph Zukor, the Hungarian who had worked as janitor in a Manhattan fur store (president of Paramount Pictures); Carl Laemmle, the bookkeeper from Germany (founder, Universal Pictures); Samuel Goldwyn, the glove salesman from Warsaw (founder, Goldwyn Studios); Louis B. Mayer, the scrap-metal dealer from Minsk (vice president and general manager, Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer). By the 1930s Mayer was earning $1.25 million a year and was presiding over the all-American family of Andy Hardy...
...room is as wide as a tennis court and as long as a football field. Along one end are tiers of metal drawers, jam-packed with filing cards. Each card represents a file that is not there because there is not enough room. These absent files have been sent to New Jersey, but 25,000 of them are hauled back every year. Near the door stand rows of shopping carts full of files in transit...
...cross-pollination creates a lively cultural blend. In Juarez, a popular hangout is the Kentucky Club, where mostly Mexican patrons select from such jukebox favorites as Duke Ellington and Julio Iglesias. Across the river in El Paso, Mexican teenagers from Juarez buy heavy metal rock LPs from Star Records, a music shop, since such disks are scarce in their city...