Word: tings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which might be described as tree-tickling. Groucho takes excellent care of himself: he plays golf, never has more than two drinks at a party, and always leaves at midnight, even parties where he is the host. His only excess is cigars. One of his favorite occupations is sit ting for long hours in his den strumming Gilbert & Sullivan (at which he is an expert) on his guitar. He is also an expert on the novels of Henry James. Having had hardly any for mal education, Groucho, by dint of greedy reading, has made himself a well-read...
Last week, having cut half a dozen new kiddy classics (e.g., Santa Claus Is Coming to Town; Ting-a-Ling-a-Jingle) for the Christmas trade, friendly Frank Luther, 51, was warming up for a personal-appearance tour. He has a ready routine, stumbled on by accident on his first school tour five years...
...headquarters house, two blocks away. This headquarters, which stood between low hills on the outskirts of Kaesong, had been assigned and furnished by the Communists; the U.N. staff refurnished it with articles trucked up from Munsan. Outside the headquarters house was a stone tablet bearing the words Yung-ting Tai-meaning Everlasting Stability Terrace...
...Buddha Knows Best" is an epic of political intrigue in the jungles of Lower Cambodia. Gwynne will play a bone hunting explorer, with Benton cast opposite in the feminine lead as a Cambodian Dragon Lady, the "Princess Ting...
Early last week Dr. Ting-fu Tsiang, Nationalist China's representative on the U.N. Security Council, lost patience with Russia's Jacob Malik. The Russian representative, snapped Dr. Tsiang one day last week, "spends much of his superabundant energy in trying to prove to us that black is white and that white is black." Malik's retort made spectators grin: Tsiang's reference to black & white was "an insult to 14 million Negroes in the U.S." He added heavily: "White men, too, may have a black conscience and a black soul...