Word: metallize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...roar of pebbles" that Arnold heard on the beach at night. A recent morning was very still. The steel-and-concrete docks jutted out into the harbor; a hovercraft bobbed passively on the water; passengers moved single file from a ferry to a train that soon started up, shrieked metal on metal and moved on. The sea continually changed color and direction, the sun laying a slice of silver on the horizon, which faded to a dull blue a moment later. In the office a boyish customs officer played rock music on his tape deck on a plastic table...
...smallish fellow, by the name of Charlie, stole the show when he used his forehead to cruch an unopened can of beer. He stood the can on its end and smashed his head squarely on its top. As the metal sides of the container burst, beer flew all over the room. Life in the fraternity basement, despite its lack of class, had a certain primitive charm. I decided I would probably join the house in the spring; most of the people there knew how to have a good time...
...story, as told by witnesses, went this way: the four youths, all neighbors from The Bronx, clustered menacingly around a blond man wearing metal-framed glasses who had taken a seat in the car. They asked him for the time, then a match, then a cigarette; finally one asked if he had $5. "Yes, I have $5 for each of you," he replied. He stood up, whipped a silver revolver out of the waistband of his jeans and fired a well-aimed bullet into each of his harassers as other passengers dived screaming to the floor. The gunman then helped...
...TERMINATOR. Audiences were lured by the giddy premise: Arnold Schwarzenegger as a killer cyborg from the 21st century. They stayed to cheer James Cameron's thriller machine as it swanked toward its heavy-metal apocalypse...
Almost any Rickover whim, it appears, was the contractor's command. When Rickover, who wore cheap metal tie clasps, saw one that he liked better on the tie of a General Dynamics employee-even when it was gold-he simply reached over and made a quick trade...