Word: metallize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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March 1981 assassination attempt on Reagan. Even before a motorcade roars up to a presidential function, agents with metal detectors have carefully screened guests for weapons. Vigilance has also touched the President's weekend jaunts to Camp David; the helicopter departure time from the White House lawn is changed on short notice to make his movements less predictable...
Mounted in a six-ft. by four-ft. display case, grinning, gleaming metal lions guard the entrance of the gilded model temples. Tiny silver bells dangle from the ceiling of the temples. University officials have not decided where the gifts will be displayed to the public, a Harvard spokesman said yesterday...
...basic mechanism of lasers is now familiar: they emit a concentrated stream of intense light powerful enough to melt metal. Experimental U.S. lasers have tracked and destroyed small missiles in flight; last May in California the Airborne Laser Lab was 5 for 5 firing at supersonic Sidewinders. But a device powerful and precise enough to be practical for nuclear defense cannot yet be built...
...WANING seconds of a Harvard victory over Yale, frenzied fans swarm onto the football field to take down the goalposts. Soon after, one of the metal structures falls, striking a Harvard student on the head. Sound familiar? It happened last year at Soldiers Field, leaving the student with minor skull lacerations. With that event so recent, it should not have come as that big a surprise when this year in New Haven, after another win, spectators again climbed the posts, bringing them down on a Harvard freshman and injuring her critically...
Reardon said that wooden goalposts were no more safe than metal ones, explaining that he had witnessed a death caused by a falling wooden goalpost...