Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Leave It to Beaver and Father Knows Best, The Cosby Show has amazingly little feel for--or even much interest in--the concerns of children. In the rare instances when the series deals with a serious issue facing youngsters, it falls back on sentimental contrivances that betray a tin ear for the way real children talk and act. On one episode, the Huxtables find a marijuana cigarette in their son Theo's school book. He claims the joint is not his; his parents believe him and consider the case closed. But Theo is not satisfied at this magnanimous vote...
DIED. John Frederick Coots, 87, Tin Pan Alley-era tunesmith who composed the music for Santa Claus Is Coming to Town, Love Letters in the Sand, You Go to My Head and hundreds of other songs, as well as the scores for a dozen 1920s Broadway shows, of which the best known was Sons o' Guns (1929); in New York City...
...wholly unworthy of the decorum and severity that surrounds its every public move. People simply adore this bunch of misfits, and it's hilarious to watch crowds cheer the Queen's tiny wave, the Queen Mother's vacant smile, and Prince Charles' shyness as the troupe arrives at Ascot tin open carriages each summer...
...troubles began early this month when tin miners walked off their jobs, calling for higher wages. Other workers soon joined the miners, paralyzing much of Bolivia. As the tumult grew, radical labor leaders issued a political ultimatum: that Siles, a moderate leftist, resign in favor of a Socialist government. Siles, whose 2 1/2-year-old administration has been marked by indecision, at first sought to compromise. He reiterated an offer of "coadministration" under which seven labor leaders would have been taken into his 16-member Cabinet, but was turned down. At week's end the strike was still on, but both sides...
...town of Zrariyah (pop. 9,000) with tanks and armored personnel carriers. Several hundred Israeli troops met some resistance from Lebanese soldiers and Shi'ite militiamen, but the column continued on into Zrariyah. Automobiles were machine-gunned, and the armored vehicles rolled over several cars, crushing them like discarded tin cans. In one destroyed vehicle there was at least one passenger, but he appeared to have been killed earlier by gunfire...