Word: tinned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...garish side, Mary Vogel Walton has a bad diction problem ("lit-tle, Lat-tin, . ."). Despite her handsome bearing, when she opens her enough what comes out is dull, thus reducing the Dean's patron (and former pupil) to a dramatic nonentity, Kathrya Schoes (Cora Jenks) commits the converse sin of unmitigated shricking...
...Little Mountain Town, the hillmen gathered for the traditional "Court Day''-marking the opening of the fall term of the county court. Many were unshaven. Their faces were criss crossed with the wounds of weather. They wore battered hats, carried pistols in their pockets. They sold their tin cans filled with rich sorghum molasses, swapped shotguns, powder horns and hunting dogs, bought snake oil, ax handles and buckets of yams. Into their midst walked the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, a man with the alliterative name of Wilson Watkins Wyatt. "I'm Wilson Wyatt...
Staying small is the idea at Groton, which is far less snobbish than people think. Episcopal Groton, which schooled F.D.R., has 34 teachers for 229 boys (including three Negroes). Seniors supervise younger boys. All sleep in dormitory cubicles, wash in plastic (once tin) basins, the legacy of Founder Endicott Peabody's muscular Christianity. "The important thing is not training a boy's brain," says Groton's headmaster, the Rev. John Crocker. "It's having a decent guy when you're done...
...Times. Little-known out side its homeland, Bunge & Born is the mightiest trading company south of the Equator and one of the biggest in the world. In Argentina, the company and its subsidiaries handle one-quarter of all wheat exports, manufacture 85% of the nation's tin cans, operate the biggest cotton mill and paint factory, and produce a bewildering variety of other products ranging from drugs to cake mixes. And the Argentine operations are only a beginning: with branches in 80 countries, stretching from Switzerland to Japan and dealing in everything from tallow to steel, the Bunge & Born...
...years in the ring, that's what's left of Mountain Rivera (Anthony Quinn). "Look at this eye," the doctor snarls at Mountain's manager (Jackie Gleason). "That's sclerotic damage. A couple of good rights to that eye, you can buy him a tin cup and some pencils. Or maybe some day he'll bang his head on a bathroom door and bleed to death. No more...