Word: tinged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...religions as well. As official Chinese delegates to the Third Assembly of the World Conference on Religion and Peace in Princeton, N.J., eight Chinese religious leaders arrived in the U.S. for the ten-day meeting. The group included Buddhists, Muslims and Christians, among them Anglican Bishop Ding Guangxun (K.H. Ting), 64, who 13 years ago was removed from his house and lost his job as president of Nanjing Theological Seminary after the place was abruptly shut down. It was only the second time in three decades that any Chinese Christian leaders had been permitted to visit...
...stop and the diabolical thump-and-shriek of disco before and after. "Shake, shake/ Shake your booty" blares forth from one of them, but not quite in time to drown out another one that is roaring out with "Ring my bell/ Ring my bell, my bell/ Ting-a-ling-a-ling." It is as though the Great God Muzak has berserked out of the dentist's office and run amuck with all his decibels exposed. Actually, the public tranquility is being regularly murdered by that handy modern convenience, the portable transistor radio. Its proliferation is nothing if not phenomenal...
...kept the symphony marching along smartly to her emphatic beat through the Brahms and Schumann program. It was good, solid music, capped with a rousing run through a Brahms' Hungarian Dance that had the audience clapping along in approval. Said one musician: "She does amazingly well at get ting the continuity and the overall interpretation right...
...sure, not too many Americans next week will be interring turkeys or resurrecting them as dinde farcie aux marrons. Fewer still will be celebrating the season with roasted peacock, Lake Tung Ting scallops or turtle flippers a la financiere. Nonetheless, a huge number, week in, week out, are creating and consuming meals of a complexity and sophistication that were all but unheard of a scant decade...
Resistance to the regime is scarcely confined to Peking. The post of commander of the Foochow military region based in Fukien province has remained conspicuously vacant since General P'i Ting-chun died in July 1976. Ten months later one of P'i's subordinates, General Ch'eng Ch'ao-chang, was also officially reported to have suffered "a martyr's death" at his post. Some Sinologists believe the generals were victims of rebellions in Fukien that forced Hua to dispatch 12,000 troops to the region. Last week a radio broadcast from Fukien reported that followers of the Gang...