Word: copperizing
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...North Carolina's tobacco belt last week, tongues were wagging with happiness and hope. At last, the state had an iron-jawed, copper-bellied football team that combed its hair with lightning and ate opposing tackles for breakfast. First crack out of the box, a fortnight ago, the ferocious University of North Carolina Tar Heels took Texas apart...
...20th Century, Laval's faculty discovered belatedly that all this was not enough; French Canada needed more. New mines (copper, gold, iron and aluminum) had been established in Quebec's north; vast power developments were being built to serve them. The giant pulp & paper industry depended on scientific forestry. The sons of the habitants wanted to know about engineering and business...
...uses: airplane and jet engine parts (for high strength, lightness and heat resistance); marine hardware (resistance to salt water); industrial equipment where corrosion resistance is important. If titanium does catch on, there is plenty of it. There is more titanium on earth than all the lead, zinc, tin, nickel, copper, gold and silver put together...
...friend, and Henry Morgan as a crippled friend. The cripple gets brutally killed by "protection" racketeers. Detective Bendix, true to his trade, wants to hunt down the killers in lawful and orderly fashion. Gambler Raft, like all shady characters, is faithful to a code which scorns help from a copper. They argue this difference of technique, in a friendly way, until Raft's enemies, seeing them together, conclude that Raft is playing stool pigeon. That puts him in real trouble. There are also two girls, Marilyn Maxwell and Gail Robbins; both are easy to look at and one turns...
...Mass and, like the Mass itself, were laden with symbolic meanings. Among the best pieces on show was a crozier from Cluny representing Aaron's rod. It was crozier, blossoming bough, and serpent, all in one. The pure, bright colors, applied to the gold and copper that abounded in the region of Limoges, lay in frozen lakes between the ridges of metal and islanded gems...