Word: metallize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the car idled in the street, the chauffeur operated a remote-control device, opening the metal gates that sealed off the driveway. Suddenly, three men sprang from a blue Fiat 128 parked across the street, spraying the Alfa Romeo sedan with bullets. The driver yelled at his passenger to get down; the armored car's heavy metal plating and triple-thick bulletproof glass held true...
Then one gunman jumped onto the trunk and fired several rounds into the upper edge of the rear window. A single bullet ripped through the rubber and thin-metal frame holding the window in place, striking the head of American Leamon R. Hunt, 56, director general of the Multi-National Force and Observers in the Sinai. Hunt died within minutes of his arrival at Rome's San Giovanni hospital...
...next 63 minutes, that center of serenity became an axis of insanity. Trash, newspapers, tennis balls, and sleeves blanketed the ice, drawing two Big Red delay of game penalties, the mob thundered louder than a heavy metal band, and Cornell blitzed Harvard 6-1 to earn a 6-5 shocker...
...team filed through a metal detector, paged through considerable paper-work, and stood through a preliminary talk given by a prison official...
Observers from Los Angeles, where protection will be the major worry at the Summer Games, include Mayor Tom Bradley, Police Chief Daryl Gates and Police Olympic Planner William Rathburn. Their problems will be larger, but it may have helped to see the queues backed up at metal detectors, delaying crowds of spectators for hockey games...