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Word: penang (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speckled with house paint, Sanford Darling seems to be at peace with himself. "There's so much to paint yet," he says. "Why, I haven't even started on the bedrooms. What do you think I ought to put in that front room? Little grass hut in Penang? Castle over in Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECCENTRICS: Scmford Darling Paints His House | 4/5/1971 | See Source »

...early 1940s, the Japanese invaded and occupied Malaya. The country's twelve-year struggle against Communist terrorists began after frogs warred in Kedah in 1948. Two weeks before violent race riots erupted in Kuala Lumpur in early 1969, there had been a huge frog battle near Penang. Thus when the latest frog fight broke out at Sungei Siput in November, local astrologers and bomohs (witch doctors) predicted another major calamity for Malaysia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MALAYSIA: Of Frogs and Floods | 1/18/1971 | See Source »

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