Word: metallize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unidentified arsonists doused the kiosks in front of Massachusetts and Lehman Halls with lighter fluid and set them ablaze at about 11 p.m. last night, destroying many posters, but leaving the $7000 metal structures undamaged. Both fires went out in less than five minutes, witnesses said. Members of the student protest organization GUERRILLA denied responsibility for the incident. University police last night refused to comment on the matter...
...above Lake Tahoe. He was on a perpetual vacation: "It's great living around a resort; you spend all your time with sports." Klaussen uses his time in the mountains to take photographs, hike, do technical climbing and practice ski mountaineering, a sport that uses cross country skiis with metal edges, and strapped-on climbing skins to hike up and down the mountain...
...whether worms swim (yes). Sometimes a straightforward answer does not drive home the desired point, and the library prepares a more creative reply. For a story on the skyrocketing price of gold last year, for example, it calculated that a suitcase of the precious metal would buy a tanker of crude oil. "Anything we are asked we will try to answer," says Chief Librarian Ben Lightman, who has been ferreting facts at Time Inc. for 28 years. "If we are unable to locate the information ourselves, we will direct the writer or researcher to a reliable source or authority...
When John Paul visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, he was obviously stirred by the photographs of bomb victims and the heat-fused chunks of stone and metal. He paused for a full three minutes at the visitors' book before he wrote, "Ego cogito cogitationes pacis et non afflictionis, dicit Dominus." (It was a paraphrase of Jeremiah 29:11, "For I know the thoughts that I think towards you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of affliction...
Spectators were frisked and had to walk through metal detectors. Twice a day, dogs sniffed around for bombs. The courtroom was crammed with evidence-wigs, explosive paraphernalia, even the proverbial kitchen sink (it bore palm prints). Only one thing was missing during the six-day trial at the federal office building in Chicago: a defendant...