Word: shied
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Woman Knows on the air last week, she gave new life to the dated charm of the J. M. Barrie play. As Maggie Wylie, the homely but wise and witty Scottish lass who is the real reason behind her bartered bridegroom's success, Ireland's Siobhan (pronounced Shi-vawn) McKenna, 35, was a trim, burr-voiced delight...
...travel out, whether by rickshaw, Volks-wagen or the Belmont bus, to the Fresh Pond rotary and you will find Cambridge's own mecca for fanciers of Mandarin treats such as Moo Shi pork, and hot and sour Peking soup. A dish that particularly recommends itself is Joyce Chen special shrimp--a specialty of the house, of course, because it bears the name of the proprietor...
...critics reacted predictably, crying out against "lacquered monkeys" and their "apelike mumblings," and a right-wing youth leader stormed: "This proves the Japanese should not have freedom!" But the little girls seemed not to hear, and the ,, cascades of streamers and toilet paper did not stop. Brooded Sociologist Hideo Shi-busawa: "Rockabilly is more like a pathetic distortion of religion than an outlet for sex. Rockabilly singers are the preachers of a strange new faith; the lowteens are the faith's blind worshipers...
...Pronounced shi-boo-gum-moo, from an Indian word meaning "gathering place...
...years the copper-hued tsurigane (hanging bell) of Tokyo's Nishi-arai Dai-shi Temple rang out over the city, its tone as rich as a mighty organ. When the temple survived the Tokyo earthquake of 1923, a superstition arose that the tsurigane was imperishable. Then, on an autumn day in 1943, a drab-colored Japanese army truck carted the half-ton tsurigane away to be melted down, with thousands of other Buddhist temple bells, into war scrap. The bell disappeared from sight, but its memory lingered...