Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dumb. Others besides campesinos have experienced this unique presidential abrazo. Tin exports account for 78% of all Bolivia's foreign exchange, and tin miners are thus a potent group that strikes frequently. During one protest against Barrientos in 1967, the President went down into the mines to confront them. An angry miner held out a dynamite stick and, to scare the President, threatened to blow the assemblage higher than Bolivia's Andean Altiplano. Barrientos grabbed the stick, held it out to be lit and called the miner's bluff. Last year Barrientos took charge in the jungle...
...Italy's first cheap mass-produced car, the 500 fit Valletta's prescription for something that could be made at the lowest possible cost, yet still be "a complete automobile." Italians dubbed it the "Mickey Mouse," and it proved to be for them what Ford's Tin Lizzie had been to Americans after World War I. At a price of less than $1,000, the car was an easy step up from the motor scooter; four passengers could squeeze into it-if they inhaled and exhaled in sync. The 500 is still Fiat's bestseller...
...former Yale great changed his strategy this year. He attempted to outshoot Nayar with lethal reverse corners and precision drop shots. Nayar proved this to be a tactical error, as his great chasing game forced Howe to attempt "dangerously accurate" shots and often to hit them into the tin...
...budget as a whole is in bad shape because we're spending $86 billion on our own military, and a lot of our foreign aid money on war toys for tin horn dictators. Not because we're spending what we do in space...
...encouraging a romance between a Sikkimese youth and a Calcutta hairdresser in the hope of importing the kingdom's first coiffeuse. She describes her home as "a poorish palace but a palace." It is a 64-year-old, two-story white stucco building with five bedrooms and a tin roof. In Gangtok, the family gets around in a white Mercedes convertible. On foreign trips, however, they make a point of flying economy class and often stay with friends. "It's no great Oriental splendor we live in," Hope observes...