Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Three out of four Bolivians of voting age are illiterate, and most are direly poor. ¶ The nation's tin mines, main source of government revenue before Paz Estenssoro & Co. nationalized them, operate at a loss because of administrative inefficiency and lack of labor discipline...
...Socialist Deputy Fritz Erler harped on the nightmare fear that West German rearmament would end all hope of reunification of Germany, and protested that the Germans were being asked to arm at a time when others are reducing their arms. "The twelve West German divisions will be the last tin soldiers of the cold war," he cried...
This piece points up the fact that Miller is a serious, sincere and honest experimenter. His revising is quite a different matter from the spectacle of Williams' rewriting the third act of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof with an eye to commercial appeal and box office receipts. One never gets the feeling from Miller, as one does from Williams, that the author is merely tricking and manipulating the audience with technical virtuosity; Miller moves his audience by meaningful revelation. And when he deals in A View with the subject of homosexuality, it is legitimate and necessary dramatically; whereas...
...Lace Curtain. On Nov. 22, 1902, the night David McDonald was born in Pittsburgh's Hazelwood section, his father was walking a picket line as a member of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers. David McDonald Sr. had been a union man since he arrived in the U.S. from Wales, was hustled out of Springfield, Ill. for union activity there. Dave's mother, Mary Kelly McDonald, was the daughter of an officer of the Sons of Vulcan, an early union for iron craftsmen. Both her brothers were union men. After a brief, unsuccessful interlude...
...chilling and profound as a child's daydream, others as sensitive and whimsical as the man himself. (Said Poet W.H. Auden: "A child brought up on such verses may break his mother's heart or die on the gallows but he will never suffer from a tin ear.") To his eleven grandchildren, modest Poet de la Mare would bow gently down and ask curiously: "What do you think is the color of your thoughts?" or would admonish: "Behold, I tell you a mystery," leaving them to supply their own explanation to his elaborate, whispered incantations. His message...