Word: metallize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...economic summit in London. They will fly in helicopters over the famous beaches-Omaha, Utah and the rest. They will inspect the surf through which the invaders struggled 40 years ago, young amphibians buffeted by waves and torn by crossfires. Their landfall, in a chaos of metal and smoke and dead bodies, began the end of the thousand-year Reich...
...archaeologists, historians and war buffs are braving rattlesnakes and ticks to help set the record straight about perhaps the least documented shootout in U.S. history. They are brandishing metal detectors and trowels in a foot-by-foot survey of the historic ground. One reason there has never been a thorough investigation of the battlefield is that until last August it was covered by two-foot-tall stands of buffalo grass. A careless smoker changed that, starting a fire that denuded the site. Since digging began two weeks ago, 550 artifacts, from an Army boot to several limb bones, have been...
...earth is unknown. Shards have landed on more than a dozen nations, including Zambia, Finland and Nepal. As early as 1961, Premier Fidel Castro indignantly charged that a re-entering chunk of a U.S. spacecraft had struck and killed a Cuban cow. A year later, a 21-lb. metal cylinder landed at the intersection of North 8th and Park streets in Manitowoc, Wis. The debris was later identified by the U.S. Air Force as a fragment of Soviet Sputnik 4, launched two years earlier. It was the first certified piece of space litter...
...undetermined point, the capsule in the canister broke open; hundreds of pellets were subsequently scattered throughout the truck and the junkyard. Even the junkyard's paperwork later proved to be radioactive. Many of the pellets in the dusty lot were pulverized and mixed up with the heaps of metal scrap...
...shipped to the U.S. The rods were used in the construction of at least two houses near Farmington, N. Mex., and the owners had to replace their radioactive foundations. An additional 3,500 tons of steel remained in Mexico. Thus far, 30 to 40 houses built with the contaminated metal have been found in four Mexican cities...