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...national emergency and he had no intention of invoking the Taft-Hartley Act against them. Both the President and the reporters seemed to be in a rush to get their chores done and their clothes changed for a more entertaining affair-the Democratic National Committee's annual whing-ding for Democratic Congressmen and Senators...
Newsmen wondered whether Pinkley and crew could learn the tricks of the tabloid trade fast enough to weather the rough days ahead. There were rumors that Hearst had shipped in 600 tons of extra newsprint in preparation for a ding-dong circulation...
...Collar-studs" means collar-buttons. "Tin-openers" is British for can-openers. "Third Programme atmospherics" refers to static interfering with higher-browed broadcasts of the BBC. *Kant's view of the Ding ais sich (Thing-in-itself) may have been influenced by the fact that nothing whatever, not even marriage, ever happened to Immanuel Kant. He lived all his life in or near Königsburg; his habits were so regular that neighbors used to set their watches by his comings & goings...
...jeep, chased a couple of Chinese girls, and then stopped on the Chungho Bridge. "Hello!" said Aldrich thickly to some Chinese youths perched on the bridge rail. Chinese Air Force Corpsmen Wong Shou-pen and Ke Fating did not seem to understand the greeting. Suddenly Corporal Aldrich cried, "Ding ho!" Seizing Wong and Ke by the legs, he dumped them backward into the deep and muddy stream below. The Americans laughed; it did not occur to them that neither Chinese could swim...
...which he was paroled after being convicted of bigamy two years ago. Van Wie, an ex-streetcar conductor who married 13 wives before the law caught up with him, wept as he explained his request: college boys, working on the ranch during the summer, kept calling him the "Ding Dong Daddy of the D-Car Line...