Word: tings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time examining the submerged bulk of past history. Besides her other gifts, Doris Lessing, is at all times, the lady novelist--and a good one, too. If her sentences sometimes seem too explicitly diagnostic in an effort to delineate complex emotions, she nonetheless never loses a dark, undercut ting humor. Her cynical view of society's absurdities is often quite brilliant, as when she describes...
...ting-tang-walla-walla-bing-bang...
...solve the problem, the Army for the past nine months has been outfit ting all M-16s with a new buffer system that slows the rate of fire back to 650 to 850 bullets per minute, thereby reducing the propensity to jam. In closerange fighting, a jam can be fatal. Tests with the WC 846 ball propellant show that a buffer-equipped M-16 now jams approximately only once every 4,000 shots. According to the Army's criteria, one jam every 1,001 rounds is acceptable. To compensate for the debris left behind by the new powder...
...satisfied grin as he munched through five quarts of Heinz Kosher Pickles. Howard Mann, a nightclub comic with a Kosher dill nose, once had to sit patiently while makeup men reworked his uneven toes, then ran up and down a steep hill 20 times to celebrate the joys of Ting foot deodorant. During practice takes for one commercial, shmoo-shaped Peter Gumeny strung a hammock between two wooden blocks stuck to the walls with Weldwood Contact Glue, slipped his 240 lbs. into the sling, and then lay helplessly as the blocks separated and he went crashing to the floor...
...tenured graduations was necessary to reduce tension between junior and senior Faculty members. "The misgivings of the junior personnel of the Faculty," they wrote, "cannot. . .be wholly explained by the natural friction between youth and middle age, or by the inevitable heart-burnings of a competitive system opera- ting under the exigencies of a frozen budget...