Word: tinned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unfinished Business. Malaysia is not only the world's biggest producer of tin and rubber, but it has also developed scores of new enterprises to cash in on the country's other mineral and agricultural resources. A new university has been built in Penang, and a steel mill is going up at Prai. The Tunku's Alliance Party supports...
Bolivia is a bleak place that-in its 142 years of independence-has gone through at least as many different governments. With chronically rebellious students and tin miners to keep an eye on, and now guerrillas, Barrientos may sometimes feel that yet another change of government may be looming just ahead...
Constance Garnett was a fine lady with a tin ear who translated the great 19th century Russian writers into a Victorian taffeta Modern Library prose. We owe her much thanks for her hardihood, but it is refreshing to find out every so often that Dostoevsky really didn't write that funny way. The Loeb Repertory Company has staged a collection of scenes from Crime and Punishment that pierces through the Garnettian fog to something close to the original electricity of Dostoevsky...
...several generations of American boys, the name Daisy evokes nostalgic memories of summer afternoons spent plinking tin cans with a BB gun. Daisy is still the big name in BB guns, but the company is now preparing to market a jet-age air rifle that is definitely not for small boys. Almost as powerful as the standard .22-caliber rifle, the weapon is nearly recoilless, virtually jamproof, and fires bullets without cartridges, primer charge or powder. Daisy is confident that it will be the forerunner of a new generation of weapons for both civilian and military...
...alive except eight young women and one old one (Beta Poničanová), who wander like nomads over the sere landscape. The nubile girls have never seen a man; their leader can scarcely remember what one looks like. Equipped with some of the trappings of the defunct civilization-tin cans, rifles, combat boots-they live like savages, telling the years by counting the rings of a tree trunk, hunting by blasting fish out of the river water with grenades...