Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since Streectar (1947), Williams has operated below peak form. He has offered a stream of new and rewritten works--a dozen of them--but only in parts of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is the old mastery evident. Earlier this month a revised version of Tinkerer Williams' The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Any More failed as decisively as had its previous version a year ago. More and more people are suspecting that Williams has been a burned-out writer for a long time; and many of these date the demise from the time Williams started undergoing psychoanalysis...
Kiddie Cars if Necessary. In early U.S. tests, recalls an Air Force general, liquid-fueled Atlas missiles "were blowing up like tin cans." But later improvements have raised the success average to about 70% . Of 199 Atlas firings, 137 have been successful. For liquid-fueled Titan I, the score reported by the Air Force is 47 successes, ten partial successes, seven failures. For Titan II, just becoming operational: 19 successes, seven partial successes, one failure. For the solid-fueled, Minuteman: 45 successes, eleven partial successes, nine failures...
...door was posted a thin, erect policeman, looking like one of the tin soldiers off the toy shelf. He munched on a donut as he serenely contemplated the war of all against...
Mohibulla started slowly, whacking backhands into the tin as Hashim, three-time U.S. Open champ ran out the first two games. 15-10 and 15-12. But his shots warmed up in the third games forehands whizzed down the walls and into corners and nicks as if they had eyes. The younger man took the third game 15-13 and the fourth...
...fifth game went to 10-10 before Mohibulla pulled away. A lob that died in a back corner made it 13-11, a forehand drop shot gave him match point, and he won as Niederhoffer banged a shot into the tin...