Word: chained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clowning act is performed with a guitar-strumming stooge against a shiny backdrop that looks like the cover of a Pocket Books mystery. Tin Tan himself wears a cock's tail in his flat black homburg, a knee-length purple velvet jacket, a steel watch chain hanging below the knees of his balloon trousers which narrow at the ankles. He is forever fondling and fussing over his mike, always starts off by jabbering such gibberish as Viriviriviri-virividee, V por Victori. At intervals he tosses in his own crazy versions of mariachi tunes, Russian melodies, Italian arias; but mostly...
...Copley already owns 17 such dailies in Illinois and southern California, including two in San Diego (TIME, March 6). Last week he launched a 25-year expansion plan. As first steps he: 1) upped Scripps-Howard-trained Edward Thompson Austin to be his chain's executive editor; 2) set up a Washington bureau; 3) secured Associated Press franchises in four Illinois and southern California towns which now have no dailies; 4) prepared to build at least four new plants...
...fresh supply of toothbrushes, tongue-scrapers, and ear-cleaners, had the columns of his house freshly painted, took a U.S. Embassy attaché down a flight of stairs to show him the only flush toilet in all Sinkiang (600,000 sq. mi.). Proudly Governor Sheng pulled the chain. It worked...
...Oberlin; M.A., Yale), a connoisseur of modernisms, he clings to the chopsticks of his ancestors, entertains New Year's guests with a stamping, lurching, conga-like version of a 14th-Century Ming dynasty dragon dance. His great power in China is built on modern chain stores, banks, cotton mills, and mining, a supermodern political machine, and a skillful playing of the ancient Chinese game of family politics. Himself the direct descendant of Confucius (75th generation), Dr. Kung married the eldest of the three famed Soong sisters. At once he thus became the brother-in-law of China...
...their left, the attackers moved on Garapan (see map), the largest town (pop. 10,000) on Saipan, and the capital of the whole Marianas chain. On their right they skirted the shores of Magicienne Bay past Laulau. In the center, struggling yard by bitter yard up the slopes, blasting and burning the Japs out of caves and crannies, they seized Mt. Tapotchau...