Word: tinned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many skills alien to the old airframe makers. Each successive generation of planes relied more heavily on electronics-a science pioneered by such ground-based giants as A.T. & T., General Electric Co. and RCA. And with the advent of missiles, where guidance and propulsion are more important than the "tin can," the planemakers found themselves losing more and more defense dollars to previously ground-bound companies that did not know a vertical stabilizer from a hole in the wall but were expert in automatic control systems or chemical fuels...
...estate caretaker. When Abrams was a boy, the family settled in the rural area of nearby Feeding Hills. There Abrams raised baby beef, ran a trap line for skunk and muskrat, patched together a wheezing model T and learned to shoot by drilling holes with his .22 through tin cans tossed up by his father...
...that if you can't join them, fight them is Richard S. Reynolds Jr., 53, president of the Reynolds Metals Co. To put its product to new uses, Reynolds sold sheet aluminum to U.S. canmakers for their products, but soon found them underselling aluminum cans with new "thin" tin-plate containers. Last week Dick Reynolds touched off a major battle of kick the can, announced that his company is entering the canmaking business to manufacture finished aluminum frozen-juice cans on location in Florida next season at a rate of 30 million a month. Reynolds estimates that packers...
...festive sounds that came from the tin-roofed village school at Namone last week suggested a cocktail party more than a peace conference. Burgundy and beer at lunch added to the hilarity. While the spokesman for the ''neutralist" bloc laughed uproariously at his own jokes, pigs rooted about on the dirt floor scavenging bits of juicy pork and chicken from the table. Even stone-faced General Phoun Sipraseuth, leader of the Communist Pathet Lao delegation, occasionally showed a frozen smile...
...diluting, which end in travesty. The films of Hamlet, Wuthering Heights or David Copperfield are obvious examples of one kind of demolition...To see the works of the Impressionists twisted into backgrounds for advertising perfume; to hear the melodies of Bach, Mozart, Berlioz and Chopin re-handled by Tin Pan Alley; to listen to absent-minded hacks giving the lowdown on high art...all this is destructive in the same measure that it is communicative...