Word: steeling
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...Sharp steel cut deep in cloudy ice as agile sinews swung hooked stick at elusive puck. Hooked stick is shorter this year, limited to 53 inches, instead of 60. Overtime allowance has been cut from 20 to 10 minutes. Abolished are penalty free shots. There are other minor changes. Otherwise the professional hockey season opened last week to frantic crowds in U. S. and Canadian cities much as it closed last April when Ottawa won the world's championship from Boston...
...Magnesite is an ore much mined in the U. S. In its crude form it is used for steel making. With lime, it is a filler in rubber making. It is also used in fireproof cement and insulating materials. . . . The President raised the U. S. tariff 50% on imported magnesite...
Freyn Engineering Co.-erecting steel mills...
...Both were in a way unsatisfactory. If the victors took the wooden standards they were unconscionably rude. If they left them alone they were incredibly indifferent. Their dilemma, however, was soothing to the less fortunate and poorer. It left some thing to say. Now that it is all gone, steel and stone will hurt their bones, but they can only bend them. Gone is the goal post issue and all the fun of official apologies...
...significant aspects of the brief dramatic incidents. There are no airs and graces about him, no strainings for effect. One will not find in him the vulgar American sin of falseness nor yet the favorite modern one of incoherence. In his prose we feel the wiry strength of steel springs: quickly, it moves with the panther's lithe, coordinate tread, so sure...