Word: tins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next day, the column moved 13 miles north to Chon Thanh, a lazy town of tin houses with thatched roofs between Lai Khe and An Loc. The townspeople, exuding the blithe fatalism common to many Vietnamese, seemed to be enjoying the show. "Some people are scared," confessed Restaurateur, Tu Ca, "but not enough to leave. Some of the rich have taken their children to Saigon, but all the regular people stay." Ca intended to stay and defend his reputation for serving the town's best chao long (a soup concocted of pork, noodles and vegetables...
...Tin Roof, the film adaptation of Tennessee Williams's play, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Paul Newman, and Burl Ives, 8:30, March 31. Chan...
...Night of the Iguana with her blouse enticingly unbuttoned. Yet Hannah Jelkes in the same play is a stalwart saint of duty who has clearly transcended sex and is presented as a human being of nobility. Maggie the Cat is a tigerish temptress in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, though her prey is her husband, whom she is trying to lure away from alcohol and his homosexual leanings. An evil temptress is rich, aging Flora Goforth in The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, who tries to corrupt and seduce a young wanderer with a knapsack...
...alert literary scavenger named Ladislas Farago dug a tin box of German intelligence papers out of the National Archives, and recycled them into a bestseller: The Game of the Foxes. The book, an almost day-to-day account of German agents at work in Britain and the U.S. during World War II, is a stunning proof of the incredible cost and even more incredible inefficiency of most espionage networks. Of the many Abwehr agents smuggled into England, for example, not one was still operating at the time of the Normandy invasion...
...punishing guns of the audacious Vance. What really got Arnheiter into trouble, though, was raising Queegsotic Caine over loose shirttails and dirty dungarees. Worse than that, the captain forced everyone to attend Protestant services, and took 20-minute showers in his cabin while the men, simmering in their floating tin box, had to do without. The Vance's crew, asserts the author, grew sullen. Eventually, a chaplain was surreptitiously sent aboard to sound out morale. Two weeks later, Lieut. Commander Arnheiter was summarily relieved...