Word: chung
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...convention floor Wednesday night, CBS reporter Connie Chung was more popular, more recognizable and more made-up than most Republican leaders. Constantly surrounded by swarms of people, Chung met with a variety of reactions as she struggled to sign autographs and prepare for live broadcasts...
Ordinarily, the immediate postmortem period is the time when a composer's music and his reputation go underground with him. Not Messiaen's. Consider, for example, a new Deutsche Grammophon release of the sprawling Turangalila- Symphonie, in a stunning performance by conductor Myung-Whun Chung and the Bastille Opera Orchestra. Written in 1948, this vast, hermetic work is a powerful introduction to Messiaen's intricate, private world of symbol and allusion, both sacred and profane...
...Ernie W. Chung...
Radio talk-show host Cliff Kincaid twice called Connie Chung, the prominent Asian-American television reporter and anchor, "Connie Chink" while on the air, and he claimed that is "common slang and 'perfectly acceptable language...
Later L.B.J. sent him to the eastern Mediterranean to head off a war between Turkey and Greece over Cyprus, then to Seoul to restrain President Park Chung Hee from retaliating against North Korea for a series of attacks against the South. In the spring of 1968, he helped keep the lid on Washington when the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. touched off racial conflict...