Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pair of Tin Legs. Bader's first try on a pair of flexible-jointed legs was discouraging. At the R.A.F. hospital, he was greeted with gruesome good cheer: "Long John's got his ruddy undercarriage back." But as they watched him learn to walk-lurching, stumbling, falling, refusing help, getting up, falling again-the affectionate kidding stopped, turned to silent encouragement. Soon Bader was turning somersaults, playing squash and golf (he now has a handicap of 4), and flying a plane. Once he went dancing with a girl he liked very much, and fell in her presence...
...Viet Nam is rich in rubber, tin, zinc, iron and coal; it has a notable surplus of rice, and a strategic 1,200-mile coastline. Viet Nam is the prize, the arena where the French and the Viet Minh have contended for the past eight years...
...Into Tin Pan Alley's Broadway capitol, the Brill Building, there passes each day a hustling parade of tunesmiths and music agents, each hopeful that he carries the answer to a song publisher's prayer. "This number is the greatest," one says, or "I gotta song here, it'll fracture 'em." The publishers buy such songs in the hundreds each year, and record-company presses compound the fractures by turning them out with the regularity of automatic cooky cutters. The multitude of dins is largely devoted, of course, to love, and mostly in songs that court...
...thesis based on what a fellow semanticist has labeled "the IFD disease." IFD, explained Hayakawa, is a "triple-threat semantic disorder" of Idealization (the making of impossibly ideal demands on life), which leads to Frustration (when Idealization's demands are not met), which in turn leads to Demoralization, Tin Pan Alley, says Hayakawa, breeds IFD germs as Jersey swamps breed mosquitoes. "First, there is an enormous amount of idealization, the creation of a wishful dream girl or dream boy, the fleshly counterpart of which never existed on earth...
...Among the early employees was Britain's John Masefield, now Poet Laureate, who rose from the $1.05-a-day job of tin-opener to that of mistake-finder (he inspected rugs for flaws), and who later wrote a book about his experiences, In the Mill...