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Word: tins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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MAISTERS were ther also, nyne or tin Who knew the clerkes ech as single men, And on the knyght they turned al ful sore To aske hadde he been listing by the dore. But from afar the worthy knyght was wys And knew he well what oft hadde scape his eyes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cantabridgian Tayles | 10/12/1963 | See Source »

...afternoon of the immolation, presumably to soothe the populace, government loudspeakers newly installed in trees near the traffic circle began blaring music. There were Vietnamese songs, French songs, Viennese waltzes and-either by accident or contemptuous design-that old Tin Pan Alley favorite, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Flames & Music | 10/11/1963 | See Source »

Like everything else at Harvard, Cardullo's has a field of concentration, food, and it covers its field better than the Peabody Museum covers anthropology. If you are under the impression that food exists solely to fill that hole behind your navel, Cardullo's little tin cans and fastidious window displays will only annoy you. If, however, you think that food, even the sight of it, is one of life's more exquisite pleasures a visit might be worth your while...

Author: By Hendrik Hertzberg, | Title: Circling the Squares: The Two Cultures | 10/9/1963 | See Source »

...doomed to military failure or, at best, a very limited guerrilla success. Meanwhile, by severing trade relations with Malaysia, Sukarno has invited economic failure. More than half of Indonesia's rubber, which supplies 50 per cent of the nation's foreign exchange income, was formerly processed at Singapore. Indonesian tin will have to be refined in Europe, instead of Penang. And Indonesia's refined oil products, over 60 per cent of which went to Malaya and Singapore in the first half of 1963, will have to find new markets. Indonesia will also forfeit $300 million in proposed American and European...

Author: By Daniel J. Chasan, | Title: The Malaysian Conflict | 10/1/1963 | See Source »

Indonesia's economy has floundered even without this shock. Exports have declined generally. Production of refined tin dropped over 40 per cent between 1956 and 1962, that of rubber, almost ten per cent. Foreign exchange holdings have declined 75 per cent since 1958. The Indonesian rupiah, which was devalued by 75 per cent in 1960, dropped in May of this year to four per cent of its pre-1960 figure. Rice, Indonesia's staple food, is expensive and scarce, Sukarno will probably have to import over 75 million dollars worth of rice this year, and he will have to sell...

Author: By Daniel J. Chasan, | Title: The Malaysian Conflict | 10/1/1963 | See Source »

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