Word: tinning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cheng Lai-sheung, a resident of Ma tin, New Territories, Hong Kong, on the lingering vestiges of Qing dynasty rule in the New Territories. It was only last year that women were granted inheritance rights in the New Territories of Hong Kong...
...loved instrumental group. For more than three decades, in exotic venues from the Vatican to the Great Wall of China, the Chieftains have played traditional Irish music--half a millennium's worth of jigs and reels--on such contraptions as the tiompan, the uilleann pipes, the bodhran and the tin whistle. The only instrument they lacked was a charismatic human voice. It's true that one band member, Kevin Conneff, was given to "singing the odd song now and again, when we let him," as the Chieftains' chief, Paddy Moloney, said in 1991 on their Grammy-winning album An Irish...
...find some quiet time, I want to write the symphonic music I've been dreaming about since I was a child." His face is illuminated with delight as he says this. It beams again when he offers this innocent credo: "The great leaders of the world should learn the tin whistle and have a party. And the world will be a happier place...
...someone who always thought of pipe cleaners as plumbing utensils, I clearly don't spend much time at tobacco shops. I was lured into Leavitt and Pierce, a tobacco shop on Mass Ave., by its amazing marbles and tin cars. Upon close inspection the store offers more than kitsch and tobacco. Up a small catwalk and past a culturally-sensitive Native American cigar seller statue are five wooden tables with inlaid chess boards...
...crowd] was shouting in between points and cheering when we hit the tin," agreed Ezra. "It bothered us and made us lose our concentration...