Word: grillwork
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...Yorkers seem to have succeeded in marketing it piece by piece. Ruffino Sauco and John Baressi were arrested Nov. 19 after being spotted prying off 200-lb. sections of the bridge and flinging them down to the shoreline. Workmen had noticed that huge chunks of an aluminum grillwork under the span had been mysteriously disappearing for two days. The apparent motive: selling the metal for scrap. City officials estimate that repairing the damage will cost $37,000. That's no joke...
...Georgia's exclusive Sea Island, expensive homes with white columns or wrought-iron grillwork face the Atlantic, reflecting understated elegance. But now they are being joined by an intrusive newcomer, a sprawling collage of concrete and glass. The 12,500-sq.-ft. extravagance is the creation of Atlanta Architect John Portman, whose atriums and glass elevators have entranced visitors in hotels from Los Angeles to Manhattan...
...role in the collapse of New York's Franklin National Bank. Not long after the billion-dollar "hole" was discovered, Calvi disappeared from his elegant Rome apartment. He had been reported missing until his body, weighted down with 20 lbs. of stones, was discovered hanging from the iron grillwork of London's Blackfriars Bridge. Police say his death appeared to be a suicide, but they are not ruling out the possibility of foul play...
Then, as King tells it, a woman working in a front office shouted, "They're coming over the wall!" King peered through the two windows, protected by a grillwork made of bricks, in Lijek's second-floor office. He saw the men on the wall and heard others moving on the roof. He did not see any weapons and heard no shooting. "We weren't afraid," he recalled. "We thought they probably were the police...
...Marine guards radioed other Marines to help gather all the office occupants together for protection, the lights suddenly went out and the radio equipment was silenced. "It got very dark in the room, because of the grillwork on the windows," King said. "We realized then that...