Word: tinning
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Lawyers, estate planners and families eager to avoid the emotional and financial toll of a pitched battle over Mom's old recipe tin and Dad's fly-fishing equipment have come up with some ingenious ways of divvying up family possessions without going to court...
...five, sometimes six chords into a single song, and (gasp) evinces a heartfelt concern for social issues. But the first track, a cover of What a Wonderful World, makes up for the general dearth of originality by wedding Joey's affectless vocal style and kick-butt guitar arrangements with Tin Pan Alley poetry and tunefulness. It's proof his comic instinct and exuberance stuck with...
Especially nowadays, I want results. Gold, silver or bronze. No tin, no plastic. None of that mystery alloy the government uses in those oddly light, play-money quarters it has been minting...
...score with a pretty, angled shot. The Harvard freshman began to exercise her dominance in taking a 4-2 lead and, after dropping a point on a stroke, won the next five and the match as Saunders self-destructed, spraying shots over the court and into the tin and hitting the wall with her racket...
...detour down Lorong Love?reputedly the former hangout of prostitutes?0leads to the very respectable premises of the Lim Tan Tin shop, where Lim Meng Hooi and her three brothers carry on the family business: selling and repairing mah-jongg sets. The Chinese love of gambling has been subdued in Islamic Malaysia, but it hasn't been stamped out. Says Lim: "One group of four people or just a family playing is O.K. More than that, the police come and take everyone to court...