Word: metallize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...commercial life. Just across the street from the Damascus Gate, near the East Jerusalem bus station, which still displays signs announcing the nonexistent express bus to the Jordanian capital of Amman, the British Bank of the Middle East stands apparently abandoned. Its front windows are covered by rusty metal shutters, the shutters covered with Arab handbills. "The Israelis wanted the bank to stay open," says an Arab wise in local charades, "but then it might be closed down in all Arab countries. So the manager remains here to do business, but you must call him at home, and then...
...Labor members were virtually unanimous in directing the Conservative government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to recover the islands by force if intensive diplomatic efforts should fail. In a reference to Mrs. Thatcher, Ulster M.P. Enoch Powell said: "In the next week or so we will learn what metal the Iron Lady is made...
...have returned from work, and the children are home from school. People gather in family groups on the sidewalks along the backstreets of Xian. A young girl stands by the public water well getting water for her family. An old woman washes her extended family's clothes in a metal tub. Another woman shreds cabbage and slices vegetables in preparation for the evening meal. A grandmother sits watching her grandchildren play as she mends shoes, and a man hunches over a chair he is mending. It is the quietest time of the day. Families sit together outside their homes...
Bomb squad experts speculated that the blast may have been caused by a small "pipe-bomb," said Cambridge Sgt. Irwin Nolan. He added that with a pipe-type bomb, gun-powder is placed inside a metal cylinder and left with a detonating device at the site of the planned explosion...
With an average of 15 Ibs. of the silver-white, highly toxic metal needed for each warhead, the Reagan plan will require upwards of 130 tons of weapons-grade plutonium to build the 17,000 or so new warheads that defense specialists estimate will be added to the U.S. nuclear arsenal by the mid-1990s. But according to congressional testimony earlier this year by F. Charles Gilbert, an Energy Department nuclear expert, the lack not only of plutonium but also of tritium, an associated radioactive gas, threatens eventually to present "a serious problem...