Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact that the pastor never fights. Not once did he even strike a strom trooper. Not once did he exhort his parishioners to do so. He is the "turn-the-other-cheek" type of Christian. Yet Jimmy Roosevelt ('37) tries to transmute this inspiring figure into a little tin Christ. If it weren't so ominous, we could afford to laugh...
...plans to conduct his own little "investigation" of the strike this next week. The public is being treated to the disgusting spectacle of a tragi-comic feud between the F.B.I. and the laurel-laden Dies Committee, over which of the two can conjure up the biggest bogey, with the tin cup of hysterically patriotic approval going to the winner. Chief among the side-line rooters are our patriotic business men who stand in high-minded solidarity in decrying any labor activity today as sabotage of the defense program. The press, with its usual uncanny feeling for the side of shinning...
...Wearing tin hats and carrying gas masks, interviewers for Dr. George Gallup's British Institute of Public Opinion lately went among the bomb-battered British people asking: "In view of the indiscriminate bombing of this country, would you approve or disapprove if the R. A. F. adopted a similar policy . . .?" The long-suffering British people divided 46% for, 46% against, 8% undecided, on giving the German people their own Luftwaffe's frightful medicine. But that was several days ago. Something happened last week in Coventry which probably changed the score...
...eagled behind him were more of the dead. They wore green jerkins, they had mountains of kit on their backs, they all lay on their fronts in blood, all kissed the earth. One dead Roman had his arms around a tree. Young boys lay with their pants still creased. Tin hats were crushed and the heads under them. Farther down, materiel, the proud stuff of conquest, lay around-trucks disguised with a sweet artistry of cypress leaves, trailers burned out and pushed aside, wrecked tanks which had spewed out their metal guts...
...they had apparently nabbed none. Not thus inhibited was Martin Dies. Last week he announced that he and his committee had compiled a fat tome on sabotage agents, intimated that shortly he would release it to press and public. It may need fast editing to be up to date. Tin's week, the main building of the American Cyanamid plant at Bridgeville, Pa. was wrecked by an explosion; the tiny plant of Pennsylvania Chemical Corp. at Johns town was destroyed by fire...