Word: penang
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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...
...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...