Word: metallize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Barry Goldwater, 72, Arizona's grand old conservative Republican Senator; with degenerative arthritis in the left hip; in Phoenix. He will undergo surgery to replace the hip with a metal ball and plastic socket. Goldwater, who limped painfully around the Senate during the AW ACS debate, will be out for six weeks...
...scene was like an eerie science fiction movie. At midnight in Nagoya, Japan, the new plant of the Yamazaki Machinery Works was deserted. The cavernous, corrugated-metal building was shrouded in darkness. The only worker in the plant was a night watchman, who patrolled the factory with a flashlight. Nonetheless, the Yamazaki Machinery Works was running at full speed, rilling the night with screeches and clangs as eight-ton metal castings were milled and moved throughout the plant, untouched by human hands...
...statue was returned piece by piece to its stand at 4 a.m., and the metal part near the base had been accurately repaired, Haydie Donahue, administrator of conservation at the Fogg Museum, said yesterday...
...effort to combat courtroom attacks, the U.S. Marshals Service and other security forces are trying everything from metal detectors and alarm systems to bomb-sniffing dogs. A San Francisco courtroom custom-designed for sensational trials has bullet-resistant glass between the spectators and the court. A few judges in places like Fort Lauderdale and Kansas City, however, have begun taking the law into their own hands. In Old West style, they show up for work packing pistols...
...unexpectedly powerful shock wave from the initial blast of the shuttle's solid-fuel rockets caused the control flaps on the trailing edge of Columbia's delta wings to flutter so wildly that they approached the breaking point. The shock also bent and buckled several of the metal trusses linking Columbia to its big external fuel tank. To prevent a recurrence of this near disaster, engineers had to undertake a complete overhaul of the shock-suppression system, deluging the flame pits on the launch pad beneath Columbia's solid-fuel rockets with even more water...