Word: metallize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rubbing their toenails and fingernails on the concrete to keep them short. Long letters printed on toilet paper in miniature handwriting are sneaked out by the hundreds. One inmate, John Thomas, swallowed a small cigarette lighter, intending to store it in his body for a couple of days. A metal detector picked it up and it was removed by a purgative...
...HEAVY METAL...
...rich-as-Rockefeller tycoon and his ice-blond wife are found murdered, their throats torn open but no trace of metal from a weapon in the wounds. Who could have savaged them? Wolves. Or, rather, American Indians who have "shifted shape" and become supernatural "wolfen." They hunt in tribes in decaying slums, preying on "the diseased and those who won't be missed." They never come downtown - until the tycoon's urban renewal plan threatens their turf...
When a flying metal shard gashed his left wrist, Nick Diaz, 33, an inspector at a Houston toolmaking firm, wondered where to go for help. His plant was too small to have a medical department, his own doctor was way across town and he did not want the hassle of checking in at a hospital. So he went to a neat, one-story building with a 40-ft.-high sign bearing a distinctive logo: an upraised hand with a bandage wrapped around its fingers and a first-aid cross on its palm. Once inside the MedStop clinic, Diaz quickly...
...absence of the Duke, the deputy Angelo is ruling with impeccable stridency, the play is loosely concerned with the fate of the libertine, Claudio, who must pay for an indiscretion with his head in order to serve notice that the law long lax under the Duke, now has new metal in it. As Claudio awaits execution in his jail cell, however, the real plot begins. Claudio's sister, Isabelle, pleads for mercy at the court, only to find herself propositioned by the ruling Angelo, who, hiding behind his reputation, offers Claudio's life in return for her own carnal indulgences...