Word: tang
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...morning early last month the 21-ton motor junk Pak Tang (Whits Surge) cleared the tiny South China coastal island of Tarn Kung and headed for Changchow. Aboard the Pak Tang were 35 migrant laborers who since early April had been building a breakwater on Tarn Kung. These were the proletariat of the "New China"-men who under the Nationalists had been schoolteachers, civil servants, army and police officers. They were all together by prearrangement. They had complained to their bosses that the three smaller junks in which they usually traveled made them seasick. As some of the 35 lazed...
...BEATRICE TANG...
...Reader Tang's original (see cut) has been forwarded to Reader Jonis...
More than 500 billboards, thousands of orange-and-black bumper tags and regular TV and radio announcements proclaimed Graham's advent. In Madison Square Garden, still flavored with the tang of the recently departed circus, huge, fragrant vanloads of flowers were unloaded. For Billy, who calls himself "the Lord's master of ceremonies," carpenters hoisted a towering pulpit. "Every seat will be a good seat . . . There'll be nothing between him and you," a crusade official explained. "We always design it that...
...spree was on view-a selection of 86 Japanese and Chinese paintings, sculpture and ceramics from their collection in Tokyo and Washington, which Freer Gallery Expert Harold Stern enthusiastically calls "without doubt one of the finest private collections in the world." Included were pottery and sculpture from the Han, Tang, Sung and Ming dynasties, a Sesshu landscape, Ashikaga screens, and a primitive warrior sculpture judged by Cleveland Art Museum Curator Sherman Lee to be "one of the finest Chinese clay sculptures in America...