Word: metallize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...farmer's front yard. The farmer looks around for a few minutes, then asks, "How about if I take that deer over there and pay you the difference?" The animal in question is a buck, 4 ft. high, with a brown paint job and an impressive rack of gleaming metal antlers. "That'd be fine," says Harper. He calls his sons Doug and Dale and son-in-law Russell Armentrout out of the work shed to reclaim the Virgin Mary and wrestle 300 lbs. of concrete venison onto the truck...
...steel of the Ashland tank may have become brittle in the bitter cold. Other possible causes: flaws in the tank's foundation, which had to support 30 million lbs., or in an underground water pipe. Ashland has also been criticized for reusing the steel. Hall admits that using old metal was one of "a few areas of questionable judgment" at issue. While not admitting liability, Hall said, "I wish our people had pursued the application more diligently...
...eyes nervously scanning the street. "There are no youngsters over twelve in sight. Hell, where have they disappeared to?" The five Israeli soldiers from the Nahal unit quickly slip down a narrow alley. Four Palestinian youths peek briefly from between two houses. Seconds later, a hailstorm of stones and metal pieces pelts the patrol. Hugging the walls, the unit breaks apart. When it reassembles, Dror, 20, is breathless. Three masked men had hit him with rocks. "The bastards knew very well I couldn't do anything to them," he mutters to TIME's Ron Ben-Yishai. "They know our orders...
...safely thousands of times. Actually, the MX has had far more serious problems with its faulty guidance system. The propellant ignited as workers were removing a device used in the fueling process. Flames shot 50 ft. into the air, and the remote building was reduced to twisted pieces of metal. The five workers in the building had no chance to flee the inferno...
Valuable race horses have long been prime candidates for sophisticated medical techniques. Until recently, however, even a spectacular champion like Ruffian, the filly who was unbeaten during her brief career in 1974 and 1975, had to be put to death after shattering a leg. No more. By screwing metal plates into the broken bones, a practice adapted from human orthopedics, surgeons can repair the damage well enough for the animals to stand comfortably after the operation without a splint. (Earlier attempts frequently failed when the high-strung animals destroyed their casts, reinjuring their legs.) At Tufts, rehabilitation after surgery includes...