Word: gongs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Chinese doctors, whose livelihood is threatened, are equally disturbed. A group led by Dr. James L.K. Gong, who combines acupuncture with the use of such exotic folk medications as dried sea horse and seal penis, met at a Chinese restaurant and agreed to ask the state to grant its members temporary licenses or to explore other ways of enabling them to continue to practice...
...acceptance speech, the President promised that he would "never stain the honor of the United States" in settling the Viet Nam War. "Honor," of course, is one of those words that strike a patriotic gong in the citizen's mind, but the concept is sometimes more complex than Nixon suggested. In the case of Viet Nam, most critics of the U.S. war policy insist that it is precisely the continuation of American involvement-especially the bombing-that threatens the national honor. But beyond that, one occasion's honor tends often to dissolve in next year's realism...
...remember the day I filed for the firemen's examination as clearly as a king remembers his coronation ... I was ecstatic that I would soon be a part of the gong clangs and siren howls . . . climbing ladders, pulling hose, and saving children from the waltz of the hot-masked devil. Tearful mothers would embrace me, editorial writers would extol me, mayors would pin medals and ribbons to my breast...
Blue Eyes. But the crowds that turned out for the mayor were encouraging. They oohed, they aahed, and they touched. Lindsay moved smoothly, confidently, charismatically through a bustling shopping center. His Florida chairman, State Senator Edmond Gong, declared how he would sound the bell for his candidate: "We're going to do a lot of walking." The schedule went without a hitch, thanks to the planning of Advance Man Sid Davidoff, who had run into initial hostility in Miami. He had been kicked out of his hotel for walking his dog Horse in the lobby and by the pool...
...joked. In fact, he was a quiet and often private man, even though he spent much of his career on the lecture circuit. He would recite his marvelously serpentine and breathlessly amuck alexandrines like a tenor testing the limit of his lungs, terminating at last in a long-awaited gong of rhyme. His versifications made the bespectacled and gamesomely civilized poet something of a celebrity. His accent ("clam chowder of the East Coast-New England with a little Savannah at odd moments") was sometimes heard on radio's "Information, Please!" and the Bing Crosby and Rudy Vallee hours...