Word: pang
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...saints, spends prissy hours washing and tidying himself like an obsessed cat. rewrites his latest "masterpiece" endlessly in green, black and red inks. His belly swings interminably between empty and half-full, but his attitude to foes and benefactors alike is unvarying: "I will take your money without a pang; my pride has nothing to do with...
...begin. Throughout, the stage blazed with barbaric lights and colors, reflecting the influence of the Peking opera troupe's Berlin visit two years ago. Time and again the action jolted the audience to attention, most notably during the Marx Brothers-styled high jinks of the three ministers-Ping, Pang and Pong-and in the final act when the hero, Calaf, took Princess Turandot in his arms and arched her backward in one of the most torrid embraces ever seen on an opera stage...
...Chinese artillery, which has lobbed 575,000 shells into Quemoy since August, has posed nightmare problems to Director Tsao Yi-fan, 48, and Editor Huang Pang-fu, 35. Three months ago Cheng Ch'i's two-story headquarters in downtown Quemoy City took a direct hit, but the paper came out next day right on schedule. Subscribers on the outlying islands-Little Quemoy, Tatan and Erhtan-must now depend on irregular deliveries by carrier frogmen. On Quemoy proper, delivery boys peddle the paper by jeep and bicycle and on foot, generally get the job done by midmorning despite...
Despite the President's State of the Union warning that "sacrifice" would be needed, his 1959 budget imposes no harsh austerity on U.S. citizens. Indeed, if Congress okays the budget intact, the average man who is not an Indian or a farmer is likely to feel a fresh pang of cold war sacrifice only when he buys a 5? stamp...
...Pang Among Flowers. Highet's book places its poets at their geographical point of departure (Catullus at Verona, Vergil near Mantua, etc.) and takes them to their common destination. Rome. Even more fascinating than their individual styles and talents, which Author Highet expertly analyzes, is a common historical drama linking the seven together in a way which Author Highet suggests but perhaps never sufficiently emphasizes. The eldest, Catullus, died around 54 B.C., ten years before Caesar was assassinated; the youngest, Juvenal, was born around 60 A.D., six years after Nero came to power. In little more than a century...