Word: dang
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...instruments range in timbre from trumpetlike brass gongs to tinkly wooden ones, play complicated rondo-like pieces, entirely without notation; a player remembers his notes by silently reciting a long poem. The Balinese scales correspond roughly to the Western; one of them has notes named ding, dong, deng, dung, dang. The Dutch Governor of Bali discovered a scale not previously identified, and the Fahnestocks recorded it in the singsong of an eight-year-old boy reciting a pornographic fairy tale...
...agreement with unoccupied France, were to be permitted to man three Indo-Chinese air bases, Chinese sources reported last week that 38,000 Japanese troops with 60 tanks had landed at Haiphong. Instead of withdrawing, the 20,000 Japanese who "by mistake" had invaded the colony near Dong Dang and Langson the week before, were advancing on Hanoi, the capital. One of the first big grabs by the invading Japanese was 1,000 U. S.-made motor trucks at Haiphong. Other characteristic acts included humiliating white Europeans in front of Orientals by accosting them at every turn, demanding...
...Japan's South China Army gave the French garrison at Dong Dang notice that they were moving in. It was not clear whether the Dong Dang garrison had heard about that afternoon's agreement, but in any case the agreement specified that Japanese troops should enter by the port of Haiphong, not by the China border. The French decided to resist. In a two-hour skirmish the French suffered about 100 casualties...
...them, and granted immediate landing of a limited number of soldiers at Haiphong. But the agreement did not come soon enough to satisfy the fire-eating leaders of Japan's South China Army. Before Major General Nishihara could communicate with them, they had crossed the border at Dong Dang, engaged in a bloody, two-hour midnight skirmish with the French defenders. Next morning Tokyo announced the surrender of the French, and the Japanese marched triumphantly on, while their Foreign Office virtuously announced that the clash "was entirely due to misunderstanding on the part of French Indo-China...
...high mountain whine Billy Hull screamed, "God dang you, don't you speak to me!" He pulled a pistol from his left armpit. Stepp turned to run. Hull shot him "right atween the galluses." On the ground he had the prudence to shoot Stepp again. Then Billy Hull crossed the river, and back in Tennessee no one ever said another word to him about...