Word: chinging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American Frances Fusco and leading scorer Debbie Ching (5 goals, 1 assist) provide most of the Bruin offensive punch. Steady Michelle Mosher anchors the midfield corps at center half, while All-American Yvonne Goldsberry solidifies the defense at sweeper...
Chen's death aroused congressional concern that the repressive government of President Chiang Ching-kuo maintains a web of spies, especially on campuses, to keep an eye on the 500,000 Taiwanese living in the U.S. At a hearing last week, a House foreign affairs subcommittee heard testimony that Taiwanese headed for the U.S. are warned not to speak out against the Chiang government. Most obey, aware of the ubiquitous informers. Said Iowa Republican Jim Leach: "Without question, agents of the Taiwan government have engaged in harassment, intimidation and monitoring of U.S. residents." He called on the U.S. Government...
Still, I've been lucky enough with the press so far. What with me leaving old Ching-Ching in London and coming here to make it with another guy's panda, they could have blown it up into some kind of jet-set panda-swapping scandal. The London papers verified my story that Ching-Ching hasn't been "in the mood" for over a year-the old headache routine, though in fairness they found she was suffering from peritonitis. What's a virile guy like me supposed to do? We're winning...
...thought it would be safer for a young woman to study the American Indian). They also take advantage of chance. Charles Goodyear discovered the process of vulcanizing rubber after carelessly dropping some raw rubber on a hot stove. Cage makes more intentional use of chance, employing an I Ching--an ancient Chinese book of charts used to determine oracles--to compose some of his music. "Most people who believe that I'm interested in chance don't realize that I use chance as a discipline," he says. "They think I use it--I don't know...
Crowds in U.S. cities have been equally curious about the traveling Chinese show. Western eyes are delighted by fine Peking porcelain vases, trays made of glowing cinnebar lacquer and Ching dynasty emperors' robes of embroidered yellow silk as thin as a breath of air. Visitors have also been intrigued by a large dragon vase that is said to be able to determine the severity of an earthquake by the way a set of balls rolls from the dragon's mouth into those of the eight toads below...