Word: dinged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bishop Ding's arrival was the latest in a series of moves by Chinese authorities to extend the hand of recognition to China's Christians and other religious believers. In January the Religious Affairs Bureau, dormant for years, was revived in Peking, along with units in Shanghai and Canton. In February a national-level conference in Kunming, capital of Yunnan province, established an eight-year plan for government-sponsored academic research on religion. Shanghai's Catholic Bishop Gong Binmei (Kung Pin-mei), 77, and Protestant Evangelist Wang Mingdao (Wang Ming-tao), 79, both imprisoned for over...
...Christianity-and other religions as well. As official Chinese delegates to the Third Assembly of the World Conference on Religion and Peace in Princeton, N.J., eight Chinese religious leaders arrived in the U.S. for the ten-day meeting. The group included Buddhists, Muslims and Christians, among them Anglican Bishop Ding Guangxun (K.H. Ting), 64, who 13 years ago was removed from his house and lost his job as president of Nanjing Theological Seminary after the place was abruptly shut down. It was only the second time in three decades that any Chinese Christian leaders had been permitted to visit...
...Ding Saltonstall...
...musical Vietnamese place names, redolent of history, blood and death. At the railhead city of Dong Dang, a 30-ft. yellow gate marks Japan's invasion of Indochina in 1940, which prompted President Franklin Roosevelt's perhaps apocryphal vow that "we will not go to war over any damn Ding Dong." At Lang Son, a crowded market town nine miles to the southeast, a nipple-crested mountain that colonial troops named the "baroness's breast" overlooks the ruins of a fort demolished even before the Viet Minh's war against the French...
...tells the fat adolescent waitress nobody will marry her. He calls her macho greaser heart-throb, Red Ryder, a fairy. He calls the bluff of an effete, narcissitic New Yorker and waves his wife's priceless violin around threatening to smash it if she doesn't do his bid ding. When the husband tries to come to her aid he shoots...