Word: metallize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pieces or contain parts that toddlers can easily choke on. Among them, according to various consumer groups: a Burger King Cheeseburger set made by Multi Toys (the plastic French fries look real and could be swallowed); Spinning Top from Ohio Art (its handle pulls off to expose a sharp metal shaft); and Medical Kit from Blue Box Toys (the plastic instruments break easily...
Pravda, the Communist Party newspaper, published a scathing article about "scrapbuilders" who constructed shoddy apartment buildings that crumbled into "concrete and metal graves over victims who were buried alive...
Soviet television showed a worker in Kirovakan, where 60 percent of the houses were destroyed, bending a metal reinforcing rod in a collapsed concrete wall by hand. Another man moved mounds of broken concrete with a shovel...
Rescuers battled a lack of equipment and poor organization yesterday as they tried to free a dwindling number of survivors trapped in mountains of concrete and twisted metal...
Mountains of concrete and metal rubble filled the cityscape, indicating where many of the newer, multistory prefabricated apartment houses had gone down. Many lower, older buildings were left unscathed...