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metal-detecting

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  • That most British of seafront pursuits, metal-detecting, is also paid tribute to in Output Arts' sonic installation Lost & Sound.

    This week's new events 2011

  • Run your hat through an X-ray machine by all means, show your ID half a dozen times to various functionaries, package your eyedrops in little baggies, trot through a metal-detecting doorway, but let's have the government tell these people to back off at this point.

    Archive 2009-10-01 2009

  • Concerned that national archeological treasures will be looted, many countries, including France and Italy, ban or restrict metal-detecting.

    Metal Detectors Hit the Jackpot Jack Nicas 2011

  • Then, when they reached the eleventh floor, they had to pass through a gamut of bomb-sniffing dogs and more officers with metal-detecting wands.

    Betrayed Robert K. Tanenbaum 2010

  • Then, when they reached the eleventh floor, they had to pass through a gamut of bomb-sniffing dogs and more officers with metal-detecting wands.

    Betrayed Robert K. Tanenbaum 2010

  • None of them was now metal-detecting in the right place, but they might succeed if they went on long enough.

    They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff Josh Spilker 2010

  • He ran a metal-detecting wand over Gillette's body.

    Forgetfulness ISCARS 2010

  • Security agents who were checking us with metal-detecting wands forgot to pass one over his head.

    Eric Margolis: Year Of Living Dumbly 2009

  • Run your hat through an X-ray machine by all means, show your ID half a dozen times to various functionaries, package your eyedrops in little baggies, trot through a metal-detecting doorway, but let's have the government tell these people to back off at this point.

    Fun with CATSA 2009

  • I nodded uncertainly, mumbled something nonthreatening and strode to the entrance, where more-pleasant police officers made me empty my pockets, ran a metal-detecting wand over me, and then handed me a press pass.

    Dan Sweeney: Danation: Neither a borrower nor a lender be 2008

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