Word: tang
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Suyin's real name was Elizabeth Tang, widow of General Tang Pao Huang, onetime Chinese military attaché in London. She began pouring both her lover's grief and her pro-Communist sympathies into a book almost as soon as Mark Elliott's death was announced. The act of writing seems to have brought a kind of peace to Elizabeth. In her book she wrote: "It is not going to happen again." Months later, she married a British policeman, moved to Malaya...
There is a triangular consistency to good chop suey: there must be rice, for body and nutritional value; there must be vegetables, for crispness and good flavor; but there must also be meat cunning little bite-sine slices which hide among the rice and vegetables and furnish the tang without which no chop suey can be enjode. Where there is no meat, there is no meal, for just as the door plucks the mushroom from the field of toadstools, so does the discriminating diner prove his chop suey with his fork and extracts the tender pieces of flesh...
...like his fellow grubbers in the River series, passes along his share of historical nuggets, e.g., in the 1790s, there were some 1,300 stills in western Pennsylvania; no less an authority than George Washington pronounced Monongahela rye "excellent,'' etc. But what gives the book its special tang is Pilot Bissell's own experiences on the old Mon. When he reported for duty on the Coal Queen, he saw a dirty one-stacker, "a piece of marine junk." That was winter time, and he had to be persuaded not to take the first train back...
...patrol, and came back to tell about it. There is an account of Commander J. K. Fyfe's Bat fish, which stalked enemy sub marines and sank three in four days. And there is the near-incredible last patrol of Commander Richard O'Kane's Tang, which sank eleven ships and was finally sent to the bottom by one of her own torpedoes...
...heart of the Scotch industry is Glenlivet, a potent, peat-smoky liquor which many U.S. Scotch fanciers have never heard of. Glenlivet is little known because 98½% of its 220,000-gal. annual output is siphoned off by big brand-name Scotch distillers, who use it to provide tang, bouquet and flavor to their own blends. Unlike other Scotch distillers, Glenlivet's owner, 56-year-old Captain William Henry Smith Grant, a kilted, decorated veteran of two wars,† never made a blend in his life, and neither did his distilling forebears-father, grandfather and great-grandfather. Their...