Word: tang
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dunster residents nominated were Miriam Cardosa '85, Nick Collarossi '85, Logam Evans '85, Jeanette Kelleher '83, Heidi Meyer '83, Paul Palmer '85, Mike Ricciuti '85, and Wallace Tang...
Iranian military intelligence units patrolling the hills northwest of the border town of Bostan flashed a warning: the Iraqis were about to attack Tang-e-Chazzabeh, a narrow mountain pass straddling the frontier. Two dozen Iranian crews manning field guns and Soviet Katyusha rocket launchers were awaiting the signal from their commanding officer. Sure enough, an Iranian forward observer spotted the columns of Iraqi armor and infantry on the move. He called "Now!" into his walkie-talkie. The commanding officer yelled "Fire!" The guns roared and the missiles blasted off toward the attacking Iraqi units...
...robe; Nazi pilots' socks; a banner from a John L. Sullivan fight; Everett Dirksen's horn-rimmed glasses; a stuffed lion that was the flying partner-when it was alive-of Aviator Roscoe Turner; several white rats, now stuffed, used in a Soviet space shot; leftover Tang from the astronauts; a piece of Plymouth Rock; bricks from China's Great Wall; shards from champagne bottles used to christen battleships; a miniature compass embedded in an acorn from an oak tree that George Washington planted at Mount Vernon; President Eisenhower's red pajamas with five stars...
...officially recognized "Patriotic" Catholic Church, which follows Communist policy by totally rejecting papal authority, and a "Silent Church" movement of unknown size that remains loyal to Rome. The conflict between the two sides intensified last June when the regime withdrew its tacit recognition of Jesuit Bishop Dominic Tang as head of the Canton diocese. The ouster came just after Pope John Paul II asserted Tang's Vatican connection by appointing him Archbishop of Canton. Tang's Communist-approved successor in Canton, Bishop Ye Yinyun, has continued to press the battle against the Vatican, accusing visiting priests from Hong...
...flavor, March of the Falsettos has an exhilarating champagne tang; in substance, it carries the weight of a cork. In an operatic mode, sans dialogue, Finn somewhat erratically unveils the bittersweet saga of Marvin (Michael Rupert), who divorces his wife Trina (Alison Fraser) to be with his male lover Whizzer Brown (Stephen Bogardus). As Marvin's owl-eyed young son Jason (James Kushner) puts it, "My father's a homo/ My mother's not thrilled...