Word: binge
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Vera-Ellen Rohe, 60, Cincinnati-born actress who, under the stage name Vera-Ellen, brought her well-scrubbed good looks and lissome dancing to a string of 1940s and 1950s Hollywood musicals, appearing opposite such stars as Gene Kelly (On the Town), Fred Astaire (Three Little Words) and Bing Crosby (White Christmas); of cancer, in Los Angeles...
...known about Hu's family, even in China. He is believed to be married and to have three grownup children, all of whom are said to live the same kind of spartan life that he has led for years. -By Patricia Blake. Reported by Edwin M. Reingold/Peking and Bing W. Wong/Hong Kong
...basis of 180 taped, in-depth interviews in China, Hong Kong's Chinese Church Research Center told TIME Correspondent Bing Wong that there are 5 million Protestants in the more than 50,000 "house churches" that kept functioning during the Cultural Revolution and became the mainstream of Chinese Christianity. Protestants, accustomed to lay leadership, began worshiping in such homes, often at night, and sharing memorized Bible stories as well as hymns. Churchless Catholics sometimes joined these clandestine meetings...
...left, and only 35 or 50 in their zoos. I just hope they don't turn this beautiful thing between me and dingaling into something cheap. While we're at it, if there's a kid, I hope they don't call it Bing-Bing, Cong-Cong or any of those ca-ca double expressions. Why, just once, can't there be a panda named Archie or Bert? Got to go. We're pulling into Washington and a mob of Panda watchers are ready to pump me full of vitamins...
...soccer (7-4, 1-3 Ivy): A squad that exudes talent and plays what George Ford calls a "bing-bing" style, which means they make a lot of short passes. A couple of frustrating losses in the Ivies have kept this team from ranking highly in the East, but overall the booters have borne down under pressure better this season...