Word: slagging
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...time, many a U. S. community has changed entirely-the German and Swedish farmers of a Wisconsin county into jitney-riding city stenographers and factory hands; the Italian truck-gardeners of an Ohio township into the proprietors of a bootlegging "Little Italy." Americanization crusades and Progress have made racial slag, temporarily, of much that was pure foreign metal in the North. In the South and Far West, what remains of the Spanish scarcely suffices to fill the realty booklets...
...Hoopuloans had three days' notice to evacuate. When the convulsions of the mountain sent the slowly creeping river of slag down upon them, they pushed off from shore in their outrigger canoes, abandoning their efforts to placate the goddess Pele* with offerings of burned pig, herbs, liquor and prayers. Passengers on a steamship had a gorgeous sight of a white-hot avalanche plunging into the sea with a roar like a host of locomotives belching blood-colored smoke and towering geysers of steam...
...steel mills now make cement out of their "slag," which was formerly thrown away as waste. Gases arising from coal-burning, instead of being allowed to escape, are now distilled in by-product coke ovens, and yield petrol, benzol and other derivative products employed in explosives, dyes...
...Duke of York and his Equerry Captain Basil Brooke were beaten in a golf foursome by Frank Hodges, Civil Lord of the Admiralty, and his miner friend Evan Williams. The game was played upon a miners' course laid out on a slag pile in South Wales...
...exactly a pirate brig, despite its swashbuckling title. But a chipper little schooner with plenty of saltwater stories aboard, a ballast of saline humor and a cargo of vocabularies like smelted slag...