Word: dinged
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Titus Moody (Parker Fennelly) is a whey-voiced, ding-this-and-dang-that farmer with a wit hot off the general-store stove. Is his wife happy? "I don't pry into her business none." Titus' farm is "somethin' like Communism. Nobody's got nothin', but everybody's workin'." Does he like the radio? "I don't hold with furniture that talks." Titus is anemic. If cut, he will not bleed; the wound will only "hiss and pucker." Says Allen: "Titus will be getting better when the other characters have dried...
...trouble started early last month. Cartoonist J. N. ("Ding") Darling (an ex-Government Wildlife man) found the beach near his Captiva home strewn with dead fish. More were floating offshore, belly-up, and the water was heavily laced with sickly yellow-green streaks...
From the very day that the Marines piled out of their transports into Tsingtao and heard their first "Ding hoa!" from the same irrepressible urchins that dogged GI footsteps all over Cathay, the reactionaries and a good proportion of the men themselves thought that they would never leave until the Communists were put down. The general opinion was that they were there to help the Kuomintang, not to "repatriate prisoners" as headquarters was claiming. With the comfortable feeling that whatever happened, good old Uncle Sam would never let them down, the reactionaries could be just as tough in dealing with...
...more intricate geometrics d'amour so deftly contrived by the remorseless Noel. At the apex is the immoral Gary Essendine (Webb), whom Noel has attempted to bless with his own aphroditie charm, the eomic pace of Grouche Marx and the caustic sauciness of Woolcott. Perched giddily atop the crotic ding dong of assorted amours is a rare fruit who barely manages to sublimate his passion for Gary. This catalogue of irregular and illicit love left the bean monde opening nighters in a happy sweat. In less than two weeks the divertisement will be over two hundred miles away...
...approximately 8,000 gamelans (native orchestras). More than 10% of the island's male citizens were musicians. Every night the little villages rang with the crash of cymbals and the brassy clang of gongs. (The five tones of the Balinese musical scale are represented by the syllables ding, dong, déng, doong and dang...