Word: tinned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...migration is a possibility. In the lush valleys of eastern Bolivia, labor is so scarce that soldiers have to be called in to harvest the sugar crop; yet one-third of Bolivia's population continues to live in the Andes, scratching a barely human existence out of dwindling tin deposits. In Indonesia, three-quarters of the nation's close to 90 million people live in cheek-by-jowl squalor on the island of Java, while most of neighboring Sumatra is left in jungle. But habit and human contrariness being what it is, few Javanese will even consider moving...
Almost everywhere the noise ends at midnight, when the tourists turn in to rest for tomorrow's sun. Only the hep types hold out-and they end up at The Clouds, listening to Ann. They get what they want in the clear, confident phrasing, in the old Tin Pan Alley favorites (Ten Cents a Dance, What's New, It All Depends on You) remembered with new enthusiasm...