Word: dang
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tension developed between the two religious groups recently when Buddhists demanded the execution of Catholic Army Major Dang Sy, who is awaiting trial for giving the orders to fire on Buddhist demonstrators in Hué last year. Earlier the Buddhists had insisted that no mercy be shown to Diem's jailed brother, Ngo Dinh Can - who was executed even though Lodge privately pleaded with Buddhist leaders against the death penalty - or to Can's aide, Lieut. Phan Quang Dong, who was shot before an enthralled crowd of 8,000 in the stadium...
...store does not open until 9 a.m., the subway will begin carrying early-morning commuters at 7:30; at the very least, the Leonards hope to grab off some of the passengers for popcorn or a hot dog at the subway-station snack bar. ''We're dang poor merchants.'' drawls Obie Leonard, ''if we can't sell them something while we've got them here...
Austin W. Scott, a successor to Williston in the Dang Professorship as well as a former student of his, noted that "there was something about Williston's manner of handling a class. Every moment was exciting...
Reaching Due My training camp 170 miles northeast of Saigon, Harkins reviewed an honor guard, climbed into a Jeep with U.S. Adviser Captain William Berzinec of Newark, N.J., and drove to headquarters for a briefing by the camp commander. Vietnamese Colonel Dang Van Son. During the rest of the morning, Harkins saw Vietnamese trainees make a sham attack with blank ammunition on a mock Viet Cong village and then repulse an attempted ambush by "guerrillas." Amid the clatter of machine guns and explosions of "noise" grenades, Harkins commented. "These guys are really good." In one of the final demonstrations, Ranger...
Everybody fears Gut in Himmel. The old blacksmith says, "Dang your old liver pin." The props are out of the 1900 Sears, Roebuck catalogue - horsehair chairs, heaters with isinglass panes, Brussels car pets, claw-footed mahogany sideboards, a crokinole board. There's a rock-'n'-rye jug full of booze, rock candy, rusty nails, and rusty hinges...