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Word: tins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...vaudeville circuit, went to Hollywood, where his waggish ways and round, jovial face won him more than a hundred supporting roles. Playing a happy-go-lucky buffoon, he worked in such films as Million Dollar Legs with W.C. Fields, The Affairs of Annabel with Lucille Ball and Tin Pan Alley with Alice Faye. A consummate ogler, Oakie could steal a scene by simply looking at a girl's legs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 6, 1978 | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

...Paul Witteman boned up for his Eastwood interviews by seeing three of the actor-director's movies (The Gauntlet, The Outlaw Josie Wales, Dirty Harry) at one sitting. "An Eastwood triple feature," the star remarked kindly when he heard about it. "After that you'll need a tin cup and a white cane." In his newest film, The Gauntlet, Eastwood races by car, motorcycle, freight train and bus to bring a witness against the Mob to the trial on time. But only at the wheel, Witteman found, does the otherwise quiet and domestic Eastwood, who does not even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jan. 9, 1978 | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

...been an electric presence on the museum, gallery and crafts-fair circuit, logging 40,000 miles on her cultural missions. Just as zealous on the home front, she decided to hang handmade ornaments from 60 U.S. craftsmen and -women-cornhusk dolls, beaded Indians, crocheted icicles, free-form tin stars and batik crèche figures-on the 12-ft. Christmas tree in the vice-presidential mansion. "We will use them all. If we can't squeeze them on, we'll dangle them hither and thither," promised Joan delightedly. Her selection to top the tree: a blue-and-white...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: On the Record | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

Outside the Coop a college student in the uniform of the Salvation Army played Christmas carols with a money tin by his side. "My music and time are the only things I can give to poor people," he said...

Author: By Susan K. Brown and James L. Tyson jr., S | Title: 'Tis the Season to Spend | 12/1/1977 | See Source »

...Queen Juliana as ransom for Caransa. The caller also insisted on the release of West German Terrorist Knut Folkerts from a Maastricht prison cell in southern Holland. Police speculated that Caransa's captors might belong to the same gang of anarchists that kidnaped West German Industrialist Hanns-Mar-tin Schleyer in early September. Schley-er's body was found in the trunk of a car in Mulhouse, France, not far from the German border two weeks ago, shortly after West German commandos staged their daring rescue raid on a skyjacked Lufthansa jet in Mogadishu, Somalia (TIME cover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRORISM: The Spreading Brushfire | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

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