Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...part in a one-day all-out effort. Early in the morning, the whole population started making noise and shooing sparrows. Every-where in the city, the sight of a single sparrow on a rooftop or in a tree was the signal for a tumult of shout, gongs and tin cans...
...fine voice Friday night. Don't let anyone fool you-it isn't easy music. Have you ever heard a bad chorus sing Thompson? Each of the four parts lies exposed. If one voice sticks out, or one section wanders off pitch by that much, even the Great Tin Ear couldn't miss it. It was a joy to hear Thompson conducting his own music, for he does it well. The Glee Club an Choral Society are to be commended on their blend, tone, and expression, and on their endurance as well (they stood throughout the entire concert...
...thought that the company that fathered the tin lizzie sees a limousine in its future was startling enough. But it was not alone. The land of the Volkswagen turned up with the Mercedes-Benz 600, which may become the flag ship of the world's dry-land luxury liners...
...Viet Cong were clearly willing to fight when they were engaged, whether in the delta or farther north. Up in Quang Tin province, near Danang, a helilift of South Vietnamese paras, hoping to provoke a big battle, made contact with the Communists in a slough of serried hills, scuffled briefly but bloodily, then withdrew to regroup. The Viet Cong did not press their advantage, so the government troops waded in again. By week's end more than 300 Reds had been killed. Government losses were 34 dead-plus two U.S. Marine Corps advisers killed by ground fire...
Living Poor. His wife Henny is a ravaged beauty when the book begins. Bred to wealth, she despises Sam for making her live poor and for playing the "little tin Jesus." She spends her life cursing him, beating her babies, kissing them better, robbing their piggy banks, fighting off loan sharks, sneaking off to see a stupid lover and viciously cheating at solitaire. She ages disastrously. Halfway through the book she is "a black-eyed, feverishly rouged hag with blazing yellow skin" and a mind that is slowly coming apart...