Word: dinged
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Santa's workshop is anything but shipshape: sacks of bell-shaped ornaments cascade from tabletops, plastic buckets leak cartoon-colored chemicals onto the cement floor, and scattered tinsel is everywhere. Ding Hangjuan, a 43-year-old former peasant, kicks through the Yuletide wreckage. Ding set up her ornament factory in an abandoned schoolhouse six years ago to manufacture decorations for Christmas trees in the U.S. This year, Ding's 400 workers labored overtime to supply a brand-new market. "My buyers were once foreigners, but now 10% of what I make stays here in China," she says...
...Mehndi: Dung dung dara dara dung dung. Technician: Ding ding da di da da DAK? Tumbi player: Ta blakakak dak dak? Mehndi: Neh. Dabadung dakadaka dakadaka DING...
Gangsters and GoodFellas is far more freewheeling and ring-a-ding-ding. In a sequel of sorts to the tightly wound Pileggi original, Hill sweeps readers along on a wild ride through the witness-protection program as he tries in vain to fit in after the feds relocate him from New York City's fast lane to slow-as-molasses Hicksville, Ky. ("Kentucky was like a foreign country," he recalls. "They'd speak in that real Appalachian, southern accent. No capiche...
...years, Ding has painstakingly gathered information about victims of Tiananmen. Despite police surveillance, dismissal from her job as a university tutor and expulsion from the Communist Party, she has become the symbolic leader for many people in China who want the government to account for its actions that night. She is a small woman with a strong voice. Her bereavement makes her powerful...
...Last week Ding and two other Tiananmen Mothers (one is actually a Tiananmen widow) were detained. Associates say they were planning to submit information to the U.N. High Commission on Human Rights in Geneva and were also making preparations for the 15th anniversary of the massacre. By Friday night all three had been released. China's official Xinhua news agency tersely stated that Ding had confessed that the women had "conspired with overseas forces to evade Chinese customs and import illegal goods to China ... and engaged in other activities in violation of China's State Security Law." According...