Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...merry-go-round music, spun sugar, and the sight of prize cakes, prize cattle and sullen hootchy-cootchy dancers. Millions of men were digging out red hats, boots and boxes of shells and exchanging speculative glances with suddenly excited bird dogs. Coon hunters were already going out at night, tin lanterns in hand, in Iowa and Connecticut. There would be other game soon-pheasants were fat, honkers were winging south in high Vs and deer were beginning their migration from high country...
...Rivals. One official who dared to live outside the Concentration Camp was former Foreign Minister U Tin Tut. He resigned from the government to head a loyal "Burmese Auxiliary Force" to fight the rebels.* One day last month, as he started to drive away from the office of the English-language New Times of Burma, a bomb planted in his car blew it to pieces. Tin Tut died two days later (TIME, Sept...
...Though the most Western of all Burmese leaders, Tin Tut was not the British stooge Communists called him. Returning to Burma from Oxford, where he had been a Rugger Blue (played in the varsity rugger team), he was informed that as a Burmese he could not be a member of the clubs in which his British former teammates toasted the old country. His nationalism was hardened and embittered by this treatment...
Five in Camp. The five camped for a while near the damaged plane. Hitchhiker Scalise made an emergency shelter of brush and parachute cloth. The Spam sandwiches intended for lunch lasted five days. Weatherbeaten Sergeant Scalise became cook. His tin helmet made a fine cooking...
...school, who learned to drink in a Virginia college but not to overcome his cowardice; Flem Snopes, who would not hesitate to stamp on every living creature to satisfy his greed; and the famous Popeye, a ghastly symbol of machine-age amorality, with the "vicious depthless quality of stamped tin." Against this background, the violent elements in Faulkner's novels-rape, castration, lynching, bestiality-are symbols of moral confusion and social decay...