Word: tins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...holding a copy of the Senate rules, a container of holy water from Lourdes, an eight-inch-wide cookie made of Rice Krispies and baked in the shape of a maple leaf, four whips (sent to him when he was Senate whip), a paint-by-number picture of Rin Tin Tin, and an egg laid by a hen on the day a man first walked on the moon. Elizabeth Knight of the historical society, who is attempting to make an inventory of the entire collection, says she has no idea how many items there are or what their value might...
...first act is rather like a remembrance of epigrams past. If one has not heard them before, and even if one has, they will be perceived for precisely what they are-diamonds. The second act is like watching a man rattling a tin cup, not for small change, but for large tears. Price manages the shift without bathos...
...padlocked around his neck, and the temperature was kept frigid. At mealtime one of the gang would alert the prisoner of his approach by coughing; Empain would then have to draw a hood over his head and cough to indicate that he was wearing it. His food came from tin cans, which the kidnapers tossed into the backyard when he was finished...
...their time. With boldness and flair, they laid a railroad across moving glaciers to gouge out a mountain of copper in Alaska. They built a modern port and a 55-mile-long aqueduct to seize another copper mountain in the Chilean Andes. They raised the family flag over tin in Bolivia, silver and lead in Mexico, diamonds in the Congo. By the outbreak of World War I, they controlled 75% to 80% of all the silver, copper and lead in the world...
...here, mixed up everything he had left, and dumped it haphazardly." BAM will eventually carry a marvelously mixed bag of these riches: petroleum from major new oilfields in Western Siberia, coal from Neryungri and Chulman, iron ore and gold from Aldan, diamonds from Yakutia, and salt, asbestos, molybdenum, copper, tin and bauxite from various areas. Shipped to Japan and other resource-hungry nations, such exports will help Moscow earn the foreign currency it needs to pay for technological development...