Word: ting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nineteenth-Century America was uninhibited in joshing racial groups. Among its targets: Irishmen ("McCracken lost an upper lip, McCloskey lost an eye''), Germans ("Der nicest ting as neffer vas Iss valk dot Broadway down"), Jews ("Oh! what a show of noses, among the Sheenies in the sand"), Negroes ("A dark night, a nigger and a chicken, You can bet that they are mighty close friends"). Likewise open and to the point was it on the recurring theme of boy & girl. Instead of Did You Ever See a Dream Walking? It went to bat with...
Last Friday afternoon he was trapped in the most thorough manhunt ting him when he entered the court Harvard has seen in a decade. Spot-the Lowell men threw a net of athletic huskies around the building and then, joined by four yardcops, began a three-quarters of an hour chase through the entries and basement tunnels. Once he was trapped in a fifth floor closet but escaped again for the moment. Finally caught he attempted to bluff his way out but was taken to the Cambridge jail and held for trial...
Isolated, these raids were like guerrilla raids all through China all through the war; but the newspaper readers could not remember when so many raids had come all at once. "Ting hao," they said-"very good...
Laying their heads together, Dr. Ross, Patric and Dr. Ting D. Lee, local head of the American Bureau for Medical Aid to China, drafted a circular to be packed with every 25 pairs of stockings. Written in Chinese and illustrated with drawings and photographs (see cut), it showed how to apply silk-stocking bandages...
Chief hope of Hong Kong was the Chinese army. Early reports had stated that Chiang Kai-shek himself was leading crack troops to the relief of the encircled islanders. This was unlikely but Chungking announced later that one of China's toughest war heroes, General Tsai Ting-kai, who had slugged the Japanese to a standstill in the 1932 Shanghai war, was among the commanders of relieving forces. Chinese troops were already reported battling in the Japanese rear at Tamshui, 28 miles north of the colony's border. The Chinese Air Force was in action over Canton...