Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans ducked the bombs, picked up the legs, turned them over to Douglas Bader and gave him a gemutlich party. Everyone had a bit to drink. Pilot Bader did wonderful feats on his tin limbs-danced, ran, turned somersaults...
...total blackout; in the streets the blue beam of air-raid wardens' flashlights showed up occasional pedestrians; a traffic light was still on. A squad car with two policemen, wearing tin hats, rolled into the square...
...tin-hatted policemen in the squad car flashed a radio call. In a few minutes the square was full of the businesslike bustle of men going into action. First they put out the incendiaries, squirting chemicals on them and flinging sand. The bomb-removal squad swung picks to dig up the still-unexploded bombs and hauled them away. The decontamination squad, dressed in rubber suits and gloves, went after the gas bombs, sprinkling chloride of lime everywhere...
Last Thursday, at 5:08 p.m., bedlam broke loose in Brooklyn. Staid citizens dashed out of their homes and shops, yelling "We're in, we're in!" Housewives stood on their stoops, beating dishpans; kids tooted tin horns; barkeeps opened their taps, "set 'em up on the house...
...freighters ply routes new to them-around the Cape of Good Hope, for example, and into the Red Sea, with airplanes, tanks, guns and food for Allied forces in Africa. Others plough the Pacific to Australia, India and the Straits Settlements, come back deep-laden with rubber, tin, wool, hemp. For its trade links with Latin America, the Good Neighbor program must depend on U.S. ships...