Word: tinned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Johns Hopkins' drive was largely powered by President Milton Eisenhower, who says, "I won't rattle a tin cup, but I'll tell the story." In five years, he has changed his school's financial complexion from red to black and doubled the budget to $61 million. The new take of $18 million, most of it earmarked for buildings, made Johns Hopkins eligible for a second heat. All the university has to do is raise another $12 million and Ford will give it another $6,000,000. With an alumni body that is notably longer...
...French positions. Ben Bella, though still pale and out of condition from his long imprisonment, gamely climbed up and down hills. Colonel Boumedienne. F.L.N. chief of staff, invited reporters to inspect the cave headquarters, which were simply furnished with cots and rough tables, lit by candles stuck in tin cans. One F.L.N. officer proudly exhibited his silver belt buckle with its legend in Spanish: "Fidel Castro for the F.L.N." Grinned Colonel Boumedienne: "That won't make the Americans happy." Contagious Guns. While the tribesmen roasted an entire sheep on a spit for lunch, Algerian horsemen charged back and forth...
Despite the claim by Carillon Records that this is a high. fidelity recording, some of the techniques are not too refined: several pieces end with a thwop where the sound cuts off, and the piano occasionally sounds tin-plated...
...least, he speaks to one newly enstooled chief who told me recently: "It's going to be better now; Big Daddy can no longer boss me around." He had seen Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in an Accra cinema and had felt quite at home...
...Suite. Seven months after his arrival at Yuba, McGara merged the company with San Francisco's Portuguese-American Tin Co. Then, in return for lavish amounts of Yuba cash or stock, he successively bought a welding company, a steel fabricating mill, a Texas petrochemical firm, an Indiana crane manufacturer, an Ohio power toolmaker, and even his former employer, Adsco Industries. Within three heady years, Yuba boasted 17 operating divisions run from a plush suite of offices in San Francisco's new Crown Zellerbach Building. Carried away by McGara's predictions that Yuba's sales would soon...