Word: bling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, weary but still getting along famously together, the students haunted Hong Kong like gimleteyed inspectors general. After morning classes, they visited refugee housing projects, a noodle factory for the needy, several island fishing villages. They showed up at a Hindu wedding, wandered through a Macao gam bling casino, edged to within 100 yds. of Communist China. A U.S. consular official gave them a two-hour briefing; veteran New York Times Correspondent Tillman Durdin conducted a long bull session on Red China. Equally educating were the solitary strolls that many took through teeming Asian slums, a revelation to youngsters...
...same way." The hearing room hushed expectantly when Wilson arrived at the Capitol to appear before a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee, for the Congress that used to bait him now knows him as Washington's saltiest character. The House's proposed 7% cut would "amount to gam bling unwisely with the security of the nation," he told the subcommittee, and if the House votes that cut this week the Senate ought to restore at least $1.2 billion of the cut to avoid "an immediate impact on our defense program." Fitting Old Shoes...
...Cadillac, but they stayed on just long enough to do a fast business, and moved on before we got to them." Busiest of the boom enterprises is a broker's office (a branch of a Toronto firm), where residents have begun dab bling with growing enthusiasm in the stock market. One staff geologist at Pronto has made $100,000 tax-free in two months investing in uranium stock, and the town is full of taxi drivers, store clerks, and even high-school students who have parlayed modest stakes into four-and five-figure bankrolls. One of the brokerage offices...
Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay was responsible for the joke. On an Alaskan inspection trip last summer, he found voters bitter about the Republican decision to press for Hawaiian but not for Alaskan statehood. Instead of mum bling weasel words, McKay publicly told statehood advocates that they were too belligerent in their approach to Congress and suggested that they "start acting like ladies and gentlemen." He resented charges that his department was trying to hold on to Alaska as an "empire." "I get sick and tired," he told an Anchorage audience, "of being kicked around...
...ditches a well-intentioned but bum bling Anglo-Indian, because he has "ten thumbs and a soul like a boiled...