Word: ting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Formosa. When Clerk Tsai Yung-ting awoke at 2 a.m., the rain had been falling for hours on the sleeping coastal village of Houlung. Too late, he rushed down to the sea wall-to find the dike watchmen asleep and the water pouring through. By the time he got back to rouse the sleeping village, the torrent was already waisthigh. That night Tsai and 29 others of Houlung's 100 people died...
...frame around an opened book and paint the whole thing red. Or he will attach a music box to the back of a blue collage, with the key sticking through the front. "The music box played Silent Night," he remarks. "I fixed it to go 'ping, ting, click' instead." Prize exhibit in the Museum of Modern Art's "Recent Acquisitions" show last week was a Johns target, messily painted in red, blue and yellow atop a layer of old newspapers pasted to canvas. Attached to the upper edge of the canvas was a boxlike arrangement containing...
...oversees operations with a machine gun in hand, Patricia is convinced that love and decency are the real weapons needed to bring the Communist guerrillas to peace. When she practically adopts Ling, a Chinese Communist girl and a very nice dish, every male in the vicinity begins to go ting-a-ling, and Author Boulle has a field day trying to prove that men are men, women are women, and do-gooder females do not know East from West even when they are facing in the right direction...
Oooh-eee-oooh-aah-aah Ting-tang Walla-walla bing-bang...
...Manchu, Dr. No is one of the less forgettable characters in modern fiction. He is 6 ft. 6, and looks like "a giant venomous worm wrapped in grey tin-foil." For hands he has "articulated steel pincers," which he habitually taps against his contact lenses, making a "dull ting." Dr. No's hobby is torture ("I am interested in pain"). Bond survives Dr. No's inventive obstacle course from electric shocks to octopus hugs, buries his tormentor alive under a small mountain of guano, and rescues the girl from a fate as a tasty snack for some giant...