Word: ta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This Fair Place. The British government of Hong Kong, for its part, spared no effort to conciliate the Communists. The influential pro-Communist dailies Ta Rung Pao and Wen Wei Pao print violent, Peking-inspired attacks on the U.S and the U.N. without interference. One of the few U.S. efforts at counter-propaganda, a 15-minute daily Voice of America broadcast, was recently dropped by the Hong Kong radio...
...Boom-ta-ra-ta-ra-ra, ye housewives, don't you sigh...
...spot. Just this spot--ta-ta-TUM." The orchestra imitated the syllables. "Once more, together...
Last week, Hong Kong's Communist-lining Ta Rung Pao published an essay under son Hu's signature. It reported that he had faithfully read Communist tracts, passed two "scrutiny" examinations. At first his filial loyalty had been outraged by Communist slurs-"To represent my father, whose knowledge is so wide, as a person who does not understand imperialism was rather an insult." But the "new learning" finally brought him round. Son Hu denounced his father as a "reactionary" who had paved "the road for capitalism-until he returns to the embrace of the people he will always...
...double virtue of being perfectly appropriate and independently memorable. In his opening scenes, showing civic stuffed shirts unveiling a monument, the speeches come through as squeaky noises that are at once a spoof of the speakers' pomposity and a nose-thumbing Chaplin commentary on the ya-ta-ta of the early talkies. He uses sound again when he swallows a whistle and his squealing hiccups bring dogs and taxicabs...