Word: dinged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...courtly ritual marked by parting gifts and deferential staff tributes. That was not the way things went when NBC News President William Small, 55, was forced to resign two weeks ago. Reporters at NBC's Washington bureau danced in the corridors when they heard the news, singing, "Ding, dong, the witch is dead." Someone ripped the name plates from the doors of NBC Correspondents Bernard and Marvin Kalb, who had followed longtime CBS News Executive Small to NBC in 1980. Meanwhile, at NBC headquarters in New York City, the news staff gleefully made up "an endangered species list...
...Ding! A flash of light and a little white angel on your left shoulder asks, "Didn't they just discuss this at the meeting this morning? You wouldn't, would...
...underground services fostered a truly indigenous form of religion that has finally freed Chinese Christianity from the control of foreign missionaries and thus strengthened its appeal to xenophobic Chinese. Bishop Ding has recently extended official recognition to all rural house churches and hopes gradually to unify them under his organization. Local house leaders, though, are understandably wary of joining any agency under close Communist supervision...
...never realized how tough it was for Amy then," her sister says, a ding. "It takes a tough person not to show jealousy, and I never knew it if she was envious. I'm really happy she's doing well now--it just shows that everyone develops at their own pace...
Some of the finest objects in the show come from the tomb of Fu Hao (circa 1300 B.C.), which was unearthed at Anyang only four years ago. A formidable woman, Fu Hao was the consort of the Emperor Wu Ding; on occasion, she led his armies into battle. Her tomb contained 200 bronze vessels, some 600 sculptures and ritual objects of jade and stone. Most charming among the bronzes is a pitcher in the shape of an owl; among the jades is a stylized crested bird with a sweeping tail that any art deco designer could be proud...