Word: tong
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there are contradictions. When Salonen and Barry first informed Alper of their presence in Gloucester, they assured the fire-and-brimstone mayor that Tong Il--the former corporate name of International Seafoods--did not plan to buy property within Gloucester. But Moon purchased waterfront land, and gradually, Tong Il set up shop in Gloucester. ("Tong Il" was changed to "International Seafoods" in 1976, because of "terrible PR," the church's director for marketing services says "Tong Il" is also the name of Moon's Korean corporation which manufactures arms and weapons at an estimated annual profit of $2 million...
Barry says all the business ventures of Tong Il and International Seafoods during the last four years have been part of an effort to establish a financial base for the church's aim of feeding the world...
...handed the toughest problems the Department of Justice faced. He took over the investigation of FBI break-ins when five other lawyers quit in a dispute with Bell. It was Civiletti who journeyed to South Korea to negotiate for permission to question Washington influence-peddler Tong-sun Park. And when Bell decided to remove David W. Marston, the Republican U.S. Attorney in Philadelphia who was investigating a Democratic Congressman, Civiletti reassured Marston's staff that their pursuit of political corruption would continue...
Romantic piano trios--Teddy Tong '79, violin; Stephanie Jacob '79, piano; Andy Calkins '79, cello, Dunster House Library...
...stretching it. THE GAME implies 16-point Harvard comebacks in the final minute, or Pineapple Milt Holt darting left with the winning touchdown as the clock all but expires. THE GAME does not imply the contest we are about to recall, the 100th anniversary of the Harvard-Yale tong war, the meeting which was decided when Lynch made a football look like a wobbly duck yet still got it to travel the required 26 yards up and barely over the goal posts...