Word: metallize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Five days after Tuesday's raid, bulldozers were still scooping up rubble, forming huge mounds of shattered concrete, twisted metal and burned wood. Notebooks and text-books littered the compound's roads along with broken glass and sharpnel...
...White House, where antiterrorist barricades have been installed to block cars and trucks. At the Pentagon, an underground concourse of shops and banks will soon be closed to anyone without special clearance. The State Department had also set up concrete barricades and sometimes screened visitors with metal detectors, but guards could not prevent a horrifying incident last summer when a 20-year-old man shot his mother to death, then took his own life just 100 yards from Secretary of State George Shultz's office. Since then Foggy Bottom has required more thorough personal searches, even for people carrying State...
...diesel locomotive, except that a locomotive may weigh 300,000 lbs., while a top fueler weighs under 2,000 lbs., driver and decals included. (The decals are everywhere. Mostly they advertise sponsors, but they also serve to cover holes where exploding engine parts have perforated the body metal and to announce matters of personal philosophy. A stylized fish on his windshield declares Garlits a member of RACERS FOR CHRIST...
...Brian Jenkins, a terrorism expert with the Rand Corp., a think tank in Santa Monica, Calif., warns that the machines cannot identify bombs like the one planted aboard the TWA plane last week. Says he: "Explosives are made out of organic material. They won't set off a metal detector, nor do they have any distinguishing silhouette. It's a blob and can be of any shape." A bomb detonator can be as slim as a pencil, and a timer no more conspicuous than a travel alarm. Plastic explosives can be concocted from a wide variety of chemical formulas...
...color and claylike in consistency, Semtex can be detected by trained dogs but apparently not by existing airport equipment. Authorities believed that the bomb, which may have been no larger than two bars of soap, could have had a plastic timer that would not have set off the metal-detecting machines at the Cairo airport...