Word: stainless-steel
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...towers and a roomy plaza cover a 16-acre site that will require the abandonment of several existing streets. Yamasaki has switched from concrete, his favorite medium, to steel because of the sheer height of the towers, and instead of having the weight of the structure carried by the frame and the elevator core, the great steel columns of the exterior walls will support it. The stainless-steel outer ribs are only 22 inches apart, with glass between, giving the effect of a glistening steel skin unbroken by horizontal window lines; from within, the tenants will look down...
...C.E.A. is actually two accelerating devices--a linear accelerator, which feeds electrons into the rings, and the circular "race track" itself. After injection, the electrons whirl around the circular orbit through a slender evacuated stainless-steel tube, The tube lies sandwiched between the jaws of 48 C-shaped magnets, each 12 feet long and weighing six tons. These magnets provide the transverse force which keeps the electrons in a circular path...
Single Stitches. Lying on the operating table beside its owner, the arm was still attached only by suture threads. To fix it firmly, an orthopedic surgeon drove a stainless-steel rod into the broken upper end of the humerus, through its squishy marrow center, until the end of the rod projected into the shoulder. He fitted the broken bone ends together, pushing the rod down into the marrow of the undamaged lower bone. If new bone grows well enough to make a solid union, the rod may later be withdrawn; otherwise it will be left in place...
...horses before finally relaxing their grip on the rope. Resnick's body slumped face-down on the sand. Jackie Spurlock, 29, quickly removed two rings from the dead man's fingers, methodically went through his pockets. The haul: a two-carat diamond ring, two wedding rings, a stainless-steel watch, worn gold Masonic ring and key, two dimes and five pennies, with a total value of $3,440.25. The four climbed back into the car and drove away...
...hopper is loaded with two pounds of regular grind. When the button is pressed, a dispenser drops nine grams of coffee into a stainless-steel brewing cup. An immersion coil heats water to 210°. The water is then fed into the brewing cup, mixes with the coffee, then drains out into a second brewing cup below that contains the moist grounds from the last cup that was made. Finally, the coffee drains on through a spout into the user...