Word: tins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gracefully consented to move when the Navy told them that a monstrous Thing would blast their island. Rongerik, some 100 miles to the southeast, was just as large, just as green as Bikini, and it had more coconuts and pandanus fruit. By last week Rongerik's huts had tin roofs and wooden floors; there was a big water cistern, a radio, a fine council house. But Rongerik was not home...
...nimble little man (116 Ibs.) of elusive gaze and elusive ways. The police chief of Cornwall Township, Ont., aptly named Robert Henry Hawkshaw, had been after him ever since Lama's wife and nine-year-old daughter were found last Aug. 16, murdered with a knife, in the tin-covered Lama shack. There were "at least 71 reports that he'd been seen," but every time the police got there, Lama "had gone...
Peron's purposes were plain: to win the new regime to his treaty for customs and passport union, perhaps then to put Bolivia in almost the same relation to Argentina as Austria was to Hitler's Germany. Last week he was reported demanding tin and rubber from Bolivia to implement his new five-year plan (TIME...
...promises of the "terrific" stuff inside, but usually hurried on when they heard the noise coming out the door. There were a few familiar names-"Hot Lips" Page, Maxine Sullivan, Georg Brunis-but few fresh performances. The street was full of has-beens and never-wases. It took a tin-eared hepcat to stand it. But last week, after many a season, music was back on 52nd Street...
Navy Day Celebration (Sun. 12:30 p.m., ABC). Tin Can, a dramatization of the Battle of Leyte Gulf; at 7:30 p.m., Mutual airs an address by Fleet Admiral William F. Halsey...