Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tin Star (Perlberg-Seaton; Paramount) is presented as a very special breed of horse opera-something the publicists call a "people western." What the moviemakers are trying to say is that the stagecoach trade should hang onto its ten-gallon hats because the characters portrayed are actually intended to resemble real human beings. They don't. Oats is oats, and the only distinctive thing about this bin of them is that they happen to be of a right good grade...
Last week Emmy-winning Bishop Sheen announced that he would leave TV "temporarily" in order to devote more time to his "first duty, which is to be a beggar with a tin cup in my hand for the poor of the world." Added Sheen: "From a worldly point of view there are many reasons for continuing on TV; but from a spiritual point of view, one must occasionally retire from the lights of TV to the shades and shadows of the Cross, where the soul is refreshed and strengthened. As the retirement was dictated by spiritual considerations, so will...
Pink Hats for Wooing. Among the busiest hustlers were the twelve Burmese delegates, all in their native garb of longyi (skirt) and gaung baung (pink gauze cap). Said U Tin U, private businessman and government mining adviser: "I am here to woo American miners. I want to convince them of the possibilities of exploitation of my country." He pointed out that Burma's government-sponsored Foreign Investment Act, which is expected to be passed early next year, will open up the country's nationalized lead, coal, zinc, tungsten and tin mines to private operation on a lease from...
...Kram brothers (the Post Office persuaded Benjamin and Henry-Max had quit the firm-to sign an affidavit promising to go out of business). Meanwhile, back in Pittsburgh, young Murray Kram, Max's son and Uncle Ben's assiduous pupil, was keeping the family's tin-plated platinum cup clanking. A bat-eared young man with the mournful features of a card player who has aces wired, Murray could not ask alms as a disabled vet, since he had not been in service. Instead, with the customary request for $1, he made a frank pitch...
...this capitol are wasted by officials who are paid $22,500 a year, standing in line to get something to eat, as if they were in Moscow, queued up to get a yoyo. And when one does eat, one is packed closer than Norwegian sardines in a Bolivian tin...