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Word: fung (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since then, Renwick has had little time to produce anything but chastity belts. Orders for his belts-decorated with a frilly flower design and diamond-shaped cutouts around the waistband -keep arriving from the U.S., France, the Low Countries and Scandinavia. A Mr. Fung of Hong Kong wanted one with a 32-inch waist. A dealer in Italy asked for 150 of them and in Kuwait, Renwick's agent reports that a few sheiks are interested in his wares. "I'd much rather make a weather vane or a fat cow than reproduce something as inherently horrid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Antiques: Iron Belt | 5/30/1969 | See Source »

Norton raced six miles barefoot through he fung'e to secure help, after his pistol charged with birdshot, failed to fend on the assailants. In a 4000-mile ham radio lookup with the CRIMSON yesterday Norton said "I had so much adrenalin in me could have run on my head...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 20 Ecuadorans Admit Attacking Researchers | 11/12/1965 | See Source »

From Khartoum to Aswan, the Nile runs through bleak desert. This is Nubia, the land of the Cush, of the mud-building Fung people, of temples and heat, where the Nile hurriedly bears its load of diluted loam over transverse ribs of crystalline rock, granite and diorite-the Six Cataracts. Below the Second Cataract, it skids through a 100-mile chute, the Batn el Hagar (Belly of Stones), studded with gleaming black islets. Then below Aswan it enters the Egypt of antiquity. Here the neolithic men of North Africa gathered as the grassy Saharan plains dried up into desert following...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Egypt: Gods, Men & the River | 5/22/1964 | See Source »

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