Word: tins
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...summer was mellow and produced sweet scents which lay in the air so damp and rich you could almost taste them. Bees buzzed in the clover. Far away from the fields the chug of an ancient steam-powered threshing machine could be faintly heard. Birds rustled under the tin porch of the roof...
...Tin Huey--The Paradise...
After this bit of luck, Raffi began to zero in on the tin with his putter. He drained a 20-footer for par on nine, got another one-putt par on the 11th green that is ringed by towering pines with black velvet trunks, and then saved bogey by holing a ten-footer...
...collapsed in splinters and the people up there came down and the roof above them gave way; but principally and first of all, the bookcases right behind her swooped forward and the contents threw her down, with her left leg horribly twisted and breaking underneath her. There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books. --John Hersey, Hiroshima...
...wore little more than a slip and a pout as Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and as the unhappy hooker Gloria Wandrous in Butterfield 8. In Cleopatra, her bangles and baubles barely covered the upper and lower regions of the Nile. What a costume change, then, for Elizabeth Taylor, in private life Mrs. John Warner, wife of the junior Senator from Virginia. Dutifully observing a 62-year-old Senate tradition she might understandably have skipped, Liz donned a Red Cross Gray Ladies' uniform and joined Mrs. Warren Magnuson of Washington and other Senate wives...