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Word: tinning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American swing earlier this summer. As the idol of the Method-acting school, Williams automatically had to become the focal point of the repertory. But which plays? Helen Hayes and her Government-sponsored ANTA company were soon to tour Latin America with The Glass Menagerie. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof was just "too dirty," and A Streetcar Named Desire called for too large a cast. So the group ended up doing Suddenly, Last Summer and Sweet Bird of Youth, the one a swift history of a young girl whose mind shattered when her cousin was eaten alive by street...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater Abroad: This Rotted World | 9/1/1961 | See Source »

...means the kind of Americans we want to keep alive. It's the Russian lack of Christian charity that can possibly start a third war, and people like the Davis family, with their store of machine guns and invulnerable doors, who will be preserved to throw empty tin cans and begin a fourth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 25, 1961 | 8/25/1961 | See Source »

...bleatniks are a strange and varied lot. Seen in San Francisco, in the vicinity ot Union Square: a blind beggar with Seeing-Eye dog, with extended hand holding tin cup, and with his transistor radio "bleating" away. Could he have been begging for new batteries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 25, 1961 | 8/25/1961 | See Source »

...Ormet Corp., a subsidiary of Olin Mathieson. At the same time, the plastics industry has developed new products to compete with aluminum in pleasure boats, packaging and auto trim. And steel has started to offset aluminum's inroads by bringing out lighter, tougher and cheaper alloys and tin plates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Metals: Aluminum Regains Its Shine | 8/25/1961 | See Source »

...PACKAGING: While U.S. Steel's new. lighter tin plate put a dent in the aluminum can market, the aluminum men came back with aluminum labels for bottles, aluminum tops for soapboxes, and aluminum-coated cardboard containers for bottles (that are said to keep beer cold twice as long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Metals: Aluminum Regains Its Shine | 8/25/1961 | See Source »

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