Word: tinkers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conflicts which rend the Middle East. He is the scion of one of Islam's proudest families, the 41st generation representative of the Hashemite clan in direct descent from the Prophet Mohammed. He is also the Westernized product of a British schooling, who likes nothing better than to tinker over a souped-up Cadillac at the Amman auto club, pilot his personal jet across the desert skies, or dance the Arabian nights out to Latin American jazz rhythms. He has the flashing eyes and the bearing of a highly bred Arab prince; his manners and speech are those...
George Francis Patrick Flaherty was riding his Irish luck. Rolling out for the Indianapolis 500-mile Memorial Day auto race, he wore a jaunty shamrock on his helmet, and he didn't give a tinker's dam for the auto racers' superstition that green is the devil's own color on the track. With his John Zink Special, almost an exact copy of last year's winner, 30-year-old Pat Flaherty had already spun through his trial heats fast enough to set a one-lap record: 146.056 m.p.h. In the big test itself, freckle...
...gives a tinker's damn about this Hong Kong? It is TIME that makes itself revoltingly obnoxious by always butting in and trying to "protect" this mere island when it is really none of its damn business. If you guys are so crazy about defending the place, why don't you move over there...
...sympathy, their shock, their approval, their disapproval, or their angry impatience at the whole affair. The circumstances were becoming familiar enough to permit a few small and very English jokes about it. In a Punch cartoon, an impressionable child thoughtfully counted the peas on her plate to the words, "Tinker, tailor, soldier, group captain." A BBC comedian asked his straight man to read the day's news. "They had tea together again," intoned the other. But back of the little jokes and the large admonitions, a disquieting uncertainty hung over the nation. Nobody in Britain expected that the Princess...
Always ready to tinker with the basic life processes if they can improve the breed, agricultural geneticists have experimentally transplanted embryos of cows, sheep and mice from high-quality mothers to lower-quality "incubator" females of the same species. Their goal: to allow champion breeders to conceive more offspring in less time, pass on the lengthy trials of pregnancy to their lesser sisters...