Word: tins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...King James' bench of learned men. They wrote when English was young, vital and untutored. English in 1971 is an old, overworked language, freshened sporadically only by foreign borrowings or the flickering, vulgar piquancy of slang. All of us-from the admen with their jingles to the tin-eared scholars with their jargon-are victims as well as victimizers of the language we have inherited...
...Teheran agreement illuminates the new power over industrial countries that the world's producers of raw materials can exert if they act in unison. Having made his point with oil, the Shah of Iran last week was talking of forming similar groupings of nations that produce coffee, copper, tin, rubber and other commodities to bargain with consuming countries...
...Dave Fish and Bob Stevens. Returning to Yale after three years in the army. Stevens had several incredible nicks in the opening game and was up 7-0 at one point. Fish won eight of the next nine points and went to 11-12 before he just tipped the tin twice to lose the first game...
...EVIDENCE indicates that the crop destruction program is widespread, that cases like that of the Song Re valley are not exceptions, and that the Montagnard people are being systematically destroyed. In Quang Nai and Quang Tin provinces, the food scheduled for destruction in 1970-71 was estimated for the Commission at 14,575 metric tons. That is enough to sustain around 50-70,000 people for a year. The targeted areas of those two provinces are the upland regions where the Montagnards live. The total Montagnard population of those two provinces is just under...
...steps proclaiming a kind of spirit that has long since passed from their lives as well as our own. The world of the dead Follies and the reality of the present intermingle constantly in Sondheim's work. No sooner does a performer do her old soft shoe than the tin-pan-alley trumpet fades into a somber and often dissonant piece of music Sondheim has written to capture the mood of disintegration that hangs over the ongoing celebration...