Word: tins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nameless small alley is littered with discarded, rusting kerosene cans and shards from broken roof tiles. Ragged bundles of kindling wood tied with string line the sidewalk. Chipped red bricks, tin washbasins and wooden buckets for carrying water are scattered over the hard-packed earth. A few bicycles, all carefully locked, lean against the facades of three-story buildings. Three chickens cluck quietly inside a slatted wooden cage. Children mill about, some of them skipping rope, while their parents do the weekend wash, drawing water from streetside cold-water spigots...
...elder Jones, a railroad man who worked only rarely after being gassed in World War I. Jones claimed his mother was an American Indian, but his cousin Barbara Shaffer says, "He made that up to impress somebody." He was an only child; the three lived in a one-story, tin-roofed frame house that has since been replaced by a supermarket...
...move to the U.S. Bessell felt that this would be impossible. With that, Bessell testified, "Mr. Thorpe said, 'Then we have to get rid of him.' " According to Bessell, Thorpe discussed various means of disposing of Scott's body, such as dumping it in a Cornish tin mine or burying it in cement...
...wall in the living room of Steve Potysman's suite in Quincy House is an enormous moose head. It has a Harvard golf cap on, tin foil in its eye sockets and a telephone receiver dangling from its antlers in the region of its left ear. Is this something that is passed on to this room year after year? "Poty" is asked...
Events abroad, also well beyond Carter's control, had conspired to aggravate inflation. OPEC'S quintupling of oil prices inspired the money-poor but materials-rich nations of the Southern Hemisphere to pump up prices for commodities as disparate as copper, tin, rubber, jute, cotton, bauxite, coffee, cocoa, tea, sugar. Instant communications-TV and transistor radios-spread the message of the good life. People in Timbuktu no less than in Toledo demanded more-more than society could reasonably produce. Communication, education and sophistication enabled the world in the 1970s to virtually defeat smallpox-and helped make just about...