Word: metallize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Klops also said that a great number of the bands made joke appearances as parodies of heavy metal-bands...
Police forces in Chile, according to Amnesty, inflict not only routine beatings but also a gamut of abuses referred to in sardonic slang. El telefono (the telephone) consists of blows with the palms of the hands on both ears simultaneously; la parrilla (the metal grill) is an electrical shock administered to the genitals; el submarino or la banera (the submarine or the bath) is a treatment in which the victim's head is held under water almost to the point of suffocation. Says Grantham: "Torture does not occur simply because individual torturers are sadistic. They tend to be servants...
...needle buried in one of the Girl Scouts' Caramel Delights. A Chatham, Va., girl punctured her lip when she bit into a cookie containing a pin. At least 17 states, ranging from Maine to California, filed more than 80 reports of cookies contaminated with pins, needles and other metal objects. The FBI quickly joined the Food and Drug Administration in a nationwide investigation of the cookie tampering...
After careful inspection of all eight plants that produce Girl Scout cookies, the FDA concluded that whatever contamination might have occurred was not related to the manufacturing process. Each plant passes the sealed final product through metal detectors to ensure that no foreign objects have been lodged in the cookies. A federal product-tampering law was enacted after Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide killed seven Chicago-area people in 1982. The maximum penalty for violators is life imprisonment and a fine...
...trouble begins at a Philadelphia construction site when a young bricklayer and speed freak named Leon Hubbard waves a straight razor under a co-worker's chin. The would-be victim, Lucien Edwards Jr., 69, is black, dignified and not to be trifled with: he bashes a metal pipe into the back of Leon's head. The foreman, Coleman Peets, sees this fatal act as providential. He has been worrying for days about how to get rid of the punk without killing him himself. The police arrive and accept with little reluctance Peets' description of an accidental...