Word: tins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tin-mining Ipoh, the airport was sealed off by 300 troops, while men of the 12th Lancers surrounded him in a body, led him to an armored car. "What, another one!" said Lyttelton, climbing aboard. "Close the hatch," said the officer in charge. Lyttelton saw the tin district through the eye-slit in the armor. In Kuala Lumpur, Lyttelton transferred to the bullet-proof automobile which had been brought from England, too late, for assassinated High Commissioner Sir Henry Gurney (TIME, Oct. 15). At Negri Sembilan he was presented with the red-starred khaki cap of a Communist shot five...
Lyttelton heard two kinds of argument: 1) planters and tin miners who want more arms, armor, more troops in the field, more discipline among the police-in short, "forceful action"; 2) minority groups, such as native Malay nationalists, Indian and Chinese residents, who want more representative government, and legislative reforms leading to independence. The planters warned that Communist terrorism was causing many old hands to quit their jobs; the minority groups said they had lost confidence in the present government...
...long--service to the College and community. The new subway to Boston enabled it to expand its work until today, it sends volunteers to 33 Boston settlement Houses to teach kids how to speak and write, how to play basketball and baseball, how to make wooden bookstands and tin ashtrays for Christmas gifts, and how to have...
...point: the insulation, marked on the plans with vertical lines, must not be omitted. This can be made from cork, asbestos, or any other material with insulation characteristics. Cut the insulation to correct size, drill the necessary hole to allow the tubing to pass through, and glue to the tin box with some product that claims to make anything stick...
...have finished most of the work. The remaining chore is to run the two longer pieces of tubing from the bottle to the tin side. This is the cooling mechanism. The longer of the two pieces of tubing runs to the water-container, which you must make or procure and carry in another pocket. Any old flask will do modified to take a small piece of copper tubing...