Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...those strips of foil were called "window" (singular), and that we dropped them . . .to get the enemy's damned radar-controlled searchlights and guns off our actually large formations. . .It was kind of comforting to hide behind a "window" screen-with the big accurate flak laying on the tin foil below and behind us, rather than on the steel foil armor plate we were sitting...
...shaving brush over his face before applying the cream cannot, however long and furiously he shakes the brush, prevent water from dribbling down his forearm and wetting his sleeve once he starts shaving. Gonk has also, of course, carried out some brilliant research on collar-studs, shoelaces, tin-openers, and the Third Programme atmospherics...
...York's delegation started the symbolic march along the aisles, blowing tin whistles. It took a long time working up steam, but it was not until 32 minutes later that Joe Martin, barking like the neighbor's old dog to whom no one ever pays any attention, restored order. The seconding speeches began...
...back of an envelope" and no notion of the holocaust that awaited him (personnel-ship Scotia passed a returning destroyer in mid-Channel, received from her merely the deadpan warning: "Windy off No. 6 buoy"). Tug Sun XI found herself ferrying to & fro for seven days, "like a sardine tin full up everywhere." Skipper Lightoller packed troops into his yacht Sundowner until, in his own expressive words, "I could feel her getting distinctly tender, so took no more...
...apparently, to collect taxes better was to keep city employees from stealing them. As committee investigators delved deeper & deeper, one William C. Foss, who headed the amusement tax division in the office of the Receiver of Taxes, hanged himself in the basement of his home. In addition to a tin box containing $16,400 in cash and Government bonds, there was unearthed a note headed succinctly: "How the shortage in the amusement tax office was divided." In it Foss named six of his fellow employees and an outsider...