Word: tinned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plane and pass through the customs checkpoint in the new expanded Port-au-Prince airport, they are assaulted by the sights and sounds of Haiti. Driving toward the city, they pass dilapidated thatched-roof shacks. Peasants crowd the roads, balancing on their heads the flowers or fruit, tin cans or huge straw baskets they hope to sell in the marketplace...
...firm to a policy of identifying every editorial as the opinion of all the editors, not just the author. This policy was particularly useful, the Fiftieth Anniversary Book relates, when the Faculty came round looking for the man who had referred to one of their number as "a little tin god on wheels...
...that can make you old before your time. On Taiwan, the land is not fertile, and the heat and humidity are unbearable Nevertheless a new prosperity is offering more economic security than Chinese have known in this century. Between the new hotels there are still the one room corrugated tin shacks, but an incredible number of these shacks have sprouted TV antennas. The children and ancient women still desperately peddle stale cigarettes and gum never seeming to sell any-but death by starvation is a rarity in Taiwan gone, but not forgotten...
...Saigon daily newspaper Tin Song, regarded as an unofficial government spokesman: "To place Hanoi in a setting of terror and nightmare as to whether [the U.S.] is bombing or not, and when, is indeed the most meritorious reprisal against the equivocal Communist tricks at the [Paris] conference...
MANAGUA was never quite as idyllic as the pop hit of the postwar 1940s made it out to be. Until last week, Nicaragua's capital (pop. 400,000) was a city of sharp contrasts: of wood and tin shacks in the crowded downtown slums, of office towers and modern middle-class apartments along Avenida Central, of sprawling homes and haciendas owned by the rich atop the low volcanic hills on the city's outskirts. As Christmas 1972 approached, the main preoccupation of the city's relaxed, resilient and notably hospitable people was the 20th Amateur Baseball World...