Word: hong
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little England. Fully a seventh of the island is sinking as a result of swift underground currents, and it will take an estimated $40 million to correct the situation. The island's 250,000 population makes it the third most densely populated area in the Commonwealth, after Hong Kong and Malta. The density is easing only where it can least be afforded: the cream of Bajan youth is emigrating to the better opportunities in the U.S., Canada or Britain. Though the economy is viable, its heavy dependence on sugar, which provides 90% of the nation's income, makes...
...main purpose is to stimulate trade, even among sometimes warring Asian nations. Included in their offerings: electrical and telephone equipment from India, machine tools and transistor radios from Pakistan, tires and tex tiles from South Korea, lacquerware handicrafts from South Viet Nam, cigarettes from Laos and air conditioners from Hong Kong...
...good deal like going to sleep with a stomachache: the night won't be comfortable, but there'll be some gaudy dreams. In his first book in six years, Robbe-Grillet's dreamy act turns round and round a series of tremulously ambiguous scenes set in Hong Kong. There is an American named Ralph Johnson who may really be a titled Englishman or even a Portuguese entrepreneur dealing in hashish, opium and girls. He attends, or thinks he attends, or the narrator thinks he attends, a party given by Lady Ava (or Eva or Eve or Jacqueline...
...Suen, a sinuous Chinese miss who was 19 years his junior. The Saigon siren and the Wisconsin salt, who was divorced be fore going to Viet Nam, merrily made the rounds of the diplomatic circuit, threw their own swinging rumpuses in Kuntze's quasi embassy at No. 74 Hong Thap Tu, Vietnamese for Red Cross Street...
...WONG Hong Kong...