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Word: tinned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Then the Express rolled out its fashion layout, in which Actress Wood, disdaining the nymphic and childish, opted for something very Capone-ish. After that, it was back to rehearsals for a TV special, with Lord Olivier playing Big Daddy and Natalie doing a feline Cat on a Hot Tin Roof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 14, 1976 | 6/14/1976 | See Source »

Though the Third World did not get all it asked for from the capitalist countries either, the West's concessions were significant. Before May 1975, the U.S. was firmly opposed to commodity agreements of any kind. Since then, it has signed international pacts on tin and coffee, and expressed interest in beginning negotiations on several other commodities. The U.S. has also offered to help launch an International Resources Bank to finance new investments in raw materials in developing countries. Meanwhile, the West's economic recovery has helped lift commodity prices from last year's depressed levels. Largely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Compromise in Nairobi | 6/7/1976 | See Source »

...better." The illness, which sent Olivier to a London hospital last year, will not keep him from trouping before the cameras. Noting "the spiritual uplift that comes with work," he announced plans to appear opposite Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood in a TV production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 31, 1976 | 5/31/1976 | See Source »

Agreements of varying efficacy now exist to stabilize the prices of tin and coffee. Secretary General Corea and the Group of 77 want an "integrated program" to cover those commodities and eight others: cocoa, copper, cotton, hard fibers (like sisal), jute, rubber, sugar and tea. They will ask that a $3 billion fund be set up to accumulate stockpiles of each product. An independent group appointed by producers and consumers would be empowered to add to and sell from the stockpiles to keep world prices within a preagreed range...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Square-Off in Nairobi | 5/10/1976 | See Source »

...time wrestler, can take on two Howless (Hawaiian variant of honky) at one time and turn them into bloody papua. Ieukea eventually had to be banned from the sport after he attacked Don Ho, who was in he audience in Honolulu that evening. Don Ho had called him a "tin horn sport." Ieukea dislocated Ho's shoulder before the ring police stepped in to "quiet him down...

Author: By Nick Eberstadt, | Title: Some Notes on Big-Time Wrestling | 4/15/1976 | See Source »

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