Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...yellow plaster house with a red tin roof on the outskirts of Leopoldville, Colonel Joseph Mobutu, 29, bit his fingernails, answered the telephone, coped with a stream of visitors, and tried to keep his three children (aged five, three, and nine months) from crawling off with state papers. In a big, three-story, official residence near the river, bespectacled Premier Patrice Lumumba peered out curtained windows, occasionally shouted invented communiqués to passing newsmen, and cried defiance at the world. On a grassy hilltop overlooking the foaming Congo rapids, stolid President Joseph Kasavubu huddled in his modern-design palace...
Died. Lee Duncan, 67, World War I A.E.F. sergeant, who found a German shepherd dog in a trench in France, brought the animal home, trained him, got him in silent pictures in 1922, and with Rin Tin Tin and four subsequent generations earned over $5,000,000 from cinema and TV; of a heart attack; in Riverside, Calif...
...fleet into its second typhoon in six months, a court of inquiry urged that he be transferred "to other duty," and Navy Secretary Forrestal was only dissuaded from retiring the Navy's No. 1 popular hero by the argument that to do so would boost enemy morale. Battered tin cans on Okinawa radar picket duty fought "to survive against the flaming terror of the kamikazes roaring out of the blue like the thunderbolts that Zeus hurled at bad actors in the days of old." And to take Iwo Jima as a perch for fighters escorting B-29 attacks...
...soon to proclaim an end to chaos. In secessionist Katanga, Baluba tribesmen rose in bloody revolt in the tin-mining town of Manono after police broke up a demonstration by tossing a hand grenade that killed two tribesmen. Anointed by a witch doctor with a potion that supposedly made them immune to bullets, the Balubas fearlessly charged a police barricade, hurling spears, shooting arrows, firing old muzzle-loaders filled with nuts and bolts. Police fire cut down 35 Balubas, while two police were killed...
...self-confident fellow who is troubled because his wife nags him about money and keeps primly to her own side of the bed, his young schoolboy son is ragged by bullies, his daughter is afraid of boys, and he himself, being a harness salesman in the decade of the tin lizzie, has lost his job. Pat Hingle gave the Broadway role a ring of rowdiness soured by doubt. Robert (The Music Man) Preston performs rousingly in the considerably enlarged film part. But the ring of his lines is not doubt -it is seventy-six trombones...