Word: metallize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Early in the morning of the fifth night, I wake to the usual jingling of glass and metal, the main sound in a hospital. There's a pale gray light coming through the window and I listen to the early going-to-work traffic. It's the time when I usually have my most depressed thoughts. I'm lying in bed, half thinking, half in suspended animation...
...symptoms: eyes focused in the middle distance, a smile as wide as a convert's and a telltale glint of metal covering the ears. The body may undulate with faint intimations of a boogie. Sometimes the hands fly upward in imaginary conducting motions. No doubt about it, it is an epidemic, brought on by America's mania not only for music, but for the gadgetry on which to play it. On streets, in parks, on bikes and buses, the latest transistor toy is the portable stereo cassette player. Weighing less than a pound and smaller than a paperback...
Though arms and ammunition were scarce everywhere, miners managed to take dynamite from the mining company, and they distributed it carefully to each community. A campesino experienced in guerilla warfare demonstrated the production of grenades using a half stick of dynamite, tin cans, and scraps of metal and glass. Another man showed the group how to make Molotov cocktails, filling glass bottles with gasoline and old rags. These homemade weapons and an occasional rifle left over from the '52 revolution were all the people had to defend themselves. In return for the dynamite, the campesinos agreed to provide food...
...boot, already in use in Boston is a metal wheel lock that makes it impossible for a car to be driven until it is unlocked and removed. And it isn't unlocked and removed until parking tickets are paid off. And until a $25, unlocking and removing fee is paid...
...cars. But just as rush hour reached its bumper-to-bumper peak, a 4-sq.-ft. section of cement roadbed in the southbound lane of Manhattan's elevated West Side highway suddenly collapsed and tumbled to the ground below. While a repair crew patched the hole with a metal plate traffic backed up for three hours. Said one fatigued driver who reached his office at noon: "It's like Berlin after the war. Nothing works...