Word: metallize
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...return to the severe solitude and renunciation practiced by the early Christian hermits. For centuries thereafter, the order was among the strictest in the church. Nuns meditated and prayed on behalf of others and speech was restricted. Members lived entirely behind high walls and spoke to outsiders only through metal grates or other barriers...
...Mustang. It is difficult to overstate the attendant hoopla. The car and its principal corporate patron, Lee Iacocca, appeared on the cover of both TIME and Newsweek. Iacocca, TIME declared, "is the hottest young man in Detroit," brilliant, an "ingenious automotive merchandising expert." Twenty-one years later, a metal sculpture of a Mustang hangs over Iacocca's desk at Chrysler, and a 1964 Mustang convertible, a gift from his wife in 1981, sits in his garage in suburban Detroit. "I'm generally seen as the father of the Mustang," he says in his book's 17-page chapter devoted...
...army convoy drove into Lebanon after spending the Sabbath in Israel. Hardly had the vehicles crossed the border when a red pickup truck with Lebanese plates slowly approached the column and, as the Israelis passed, exploded. An open "safari" truck was reduced to a pile of smoldering metal, with twelve of the troopers aboard killed. It was the worst single loss the Israeli forces had suffered in southern Lebanon in 16 months. The fact that the bombing occurred only a few hundred yards north of the Israeli border town of Metulla reinforced Israeli fears that the Shi'ite militants aspire...
...foosball table doesn't look like more than a miniature soccer field, with its two teams of 11 plastic or wood men attached to eight metal rods. But when there are four avid players gathered round, pushing, pulling and jamming the ball past the opposite team, the table might as well be of a world soccer championship...
When Texas Oilmen Nelson Bunker Hunt and his brother William Herbert went headlong into the silver market in 1979 and 1980, they pushed the value of the precious metal from $6 to $50 per oz. and accumulated a hoard worth about $10 billion. That forced up the cost of everything from photographic film to jewelry, and tempted thousands of Americans to sell the family sterling. But the Hunts lost as much as $1 billion in a day in early 1980, when the speculative bubble burst and silver prices collapsed. Five years later, the Hunt family's woes continue to grow...