Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Alliance for Progress, one shudders at the apparent goals. We seem to have here a case, all too common, of looking too much at form and too little at substance. It is indeed true that the Bolivian governors have "obtained electoral reforms and the nationalization of the tin industry, as well as the breaking up of large feudal estates." But of what value are these things, from the standpoint of the masses, if they are worse off than before, if it now costs more to produce Bolivian tin than it can be sold for on the world market...
...blustering loudmouth who always loses the girl; of cancer; in Encino, Calif. Most memorable roles: the boorish Joe the Twirler in 1942's screen version of Thurber's The Male Animal, and Big Daddy's grasping son, Gooper, in Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof...
Guardian once described as "Panama City modern." There is, he insists, no need for him to work any harder. "Successful selling," shrugs Ideologist Brooks, "is like holding a tin mug under a waterfall...
Since then, the Indians have joined forces with the M.N.R. (Movimiento Nacional Revolucianaria), the revolutionary party that is now in power. They have obtained electoral reforms and the nationalization of the tin industry, as well as the breaking up of large feudal estates...
Grass, a 35-year-old ex-tombstone carver, is probably the most inventive talent to be heard from anywhere since the war. In The Tin Drum, he employs every technique from realism to surrealism, every tone from a whisper to a howl. The gaudiest gimmick in his literary bag of tricks, however, is a character named Oskar Matzerath. For Oskar is that wildly distorted mirror which, held up to a wildly deformed reality, gives back a recognizable likeness...