Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last winter, seven-year-old Rachel Goodman, rummaging through a closet in her family's Manhattan apartment, came across a dusty tin box full of acetate (test) records. It took her father, Bandleader and Clarinetist Benny Goodman, a minute or two to recall what they were ("I put them away so carefully I couldn't find them...
...special occasions, the Colleges make a big bid for gentility. A week ago, Calhoun replaced its tin trays with crockery, dressed its cafeteria staff in elegant black uniforms, and spectacularly dished out unspectacular food while a string trio played dinner music. A lady dispensing coffee obsessed with her duty to maintain a polished atmosphere, apologized for serving coffee cups on plates rather than saucers to students who usually balanced their coffee on trays. Dress for meals at Yale is not so consistently formal as it is in the Houses. Ties and coats are required for the main meal...
...Malaya last week communist guerrillas still sowed death & destruction. Forty thousand British troops and a third of the Malaya Federation's budget were needed to hold down 5,000 jungle-wise Red terrorists. Yet Red destruction was more than matched by anti-Red construction. Rubber, tin and rice production stood at a record peak. More significant, the country's long antagonistic racial groups, the Malays and the Chinese, were closing ranks toward national unity...
...trend." Cronin explained yesterday that several factors, beyond raised transportation costs for midwestern beverages, could bring about the boost. Primary among these factors, he explained, are 20 percent cuts by the government in agricultural necessities--corn, wheat, and hops--and a reduction in the availability of glass, steel, and tin...
Dark City (Paramount) is a snail-paced thriller about three tin horn gamblers pursued by an avenging psychopath. It also introduces to the screen a sullen, Bogart-style newcomer from television, Charlton Heston...