Word: tinkers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...about ray guns and spaceports, but Lancelot himself is an old standby. Adorned with an "oversized Adam's apple, ears like a loving cup's handles, and a grin like a Saint Bernard puppy," Lancelot is that time-tested hero, the gangling young whippersnapper who loves to tinker-and more often than not tinkers his way to a fabulous discovery. With the greatest of ease he captures a group of space pirates who try to hold up his ship in mid-stratosphere, invents a velocity intensifier which ups his ship's speed to 670 million m.p.h...
...born tinker, Dallas' independent oilman Ben Barnett turned a onetime skating rink into a factory where he manufactures everything from children's play furniture to outdoor steak grills and toilet-paper holders. Last year his Harben Manufacturing Co. (named after Ben and his wife Harriet) grossed...
Last week, totting up $9,897 profits for June, Barnett split one-third of it with his 66 employees. Explained the happy tinker: "They earned it by increased production. I can't take it with...
...seniority, plaintively warned that "a baby could grow up before a younger man could do the state any good." With a campaign kitty raised by oil and utility companies, he showered the state with pamphlets ("What Elmer Thomas Has Done for Soy Beans") and ads ("Can We Keep Tinker Field if We Lose Senator Elmer Thomas...
...this collection of rustic short stories, Liam O'Flaherty finds himself in the uneventful void of an Ireland at peace, with only the piping curlews, the fragrant bogs, the blue hills and the boneheaded peasantry for his inspiration. Typical is his story of The Challenge. A drunken tinker stands in a Connemara market place after a fair, offering to tear the living heart out of any Connemara gouger who will fight him. A few feet away a young Connemara man offers to crucify any tinker living. The two bawl insults at each other till the Civil Guards arrive, then...