Word: tinned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...young men of the 2,200-ton U.S. destroyer Maddox, patrol duty in Tonkin seemed as ho-hum and hum drum as duty on any of a hundred other routine tin-can patrols. In this case, the mission of the Maddox was mainly to show the U.S. flag and keep a casual lookout for Communist gun runners or seaborne Red guerrilla cadres. Occasionally the Maddox would slip up to within 13 miles of the Communist mainland, set her radar to sniffing the coast. But the real challenge to her sailors was to stay awake on lonely watches. Few of them...
...Premier Moise Tshombe. Though the Congolese army, in a rare show of aggressiveness, had recaptured the river port of Bolobo some 200 miles northeast of Leopoldville and three other towns, rebel forces threatened Kivu Central province's highland capital of Bukavu. The rampaging insurgent forces reportedly captured the tin-mining town of Manono as well...
...rollers and then ground and polished to remove imperfections. The float process, devised by Alastair Pilkington, the company's production head and a distant cousin of the founder, produces better glass more simply and cheaply. In the process, molten glass flows onto the surface of hot liquid tin, acquiring a smooth, flawless surface as it floats, then is quickly cooled and hardened before it can be marred by touching any solid object. By reducing the steps in the production process, the method saves 30% of the ordinary cost of glassmaking...
...Flipper (actually a girl dolphin named Susie) who saves the day, easily proving the most indomitable anthropomorphic movie hero since Rin Tin Tin. Flipper sings, squeals, dances, tows a disabled rowboat through a choppy sea, finally defeats the villains in single-snouted combat, and nearly dies of a knife wound before surgery pulls him through. Anyone who finds such exploits hard to swallow is either a lot more than twelve years old or just a jaded landlubber who can't appreciate a picture with a porpoise...
...past three years, but never to his home town, Rangoon. Between July 25 and 27, however, he plans a small detour en route to a visit to Moscow. He wants to visit his mother, now well past 80, and for the first time, the grave of his only son, Tin Maung (Timmy), who was killed two years ago at 21 in a Rangoon bus accident...