Word: ung
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though Actress Judy Holliday specialized in playing dumb blondes, legend has it that she possessed a towering 172 IQ. Spiro Agnew says his is 135, which puts him well into the ranks of the intellectually superior. South Korea's Kim Ung-Yong, a 14-year-old prodigy who was speaking four languages and solving integral calculus problems at age four, is said to tip the mental scales at 210, worth a mention in the Guinness Book of World Records. Even Yankee Slugger Reggie Jackson brags as much about his IQ (he claims...
...among the Chinese military have provided further evidence of Hua's continuing struggle to put down opposition to his post-Mao regime. Last month eight generals were shifted from garrison to garrison like so many foot soldiers or pawns on a Chinese chessboard. One Hua supporter, General Fu Ch'ung-pi, was appointed commander of the Peking garrison?a highly strategic position...
...origins and ritual meanings of the pi disks and the objects called ts'ung, hollow cylinders encased in square tubes, remain recondite enigmas, even to scholars. Pi disks are often mentioned as symbols of Heaven and as proper offerings to the mountains and the rivers. Staring at these primeval shapes and the infinitely various shades and mixtures of colors--pure glossy black tinged with red and gold, pinks mottled by swirling streams of yellow, bolts of orange running through beige and brown--it is not difficult to see them as symbols of a world without form filled only with...
...member added. "It isn't always that serious either, you know. A while ago, we were singing a Sermisy chanson which begins Au joly boys, en Tombre d'ung soucy,' and John pointed out that the whole phrase moved toward Tombre and its very nasal French vowel. Well, nobody was singing it correctly. So finally he said. 'When you sing Tombre, see nothing but a tremendous nose: Tombre,' which was really a good way of explaining to a vocalist that French vowels should vibrate in the nose and mask of the face when he or she sings...
...instructed countless other guns−from the Queen Mother's private secretary to Actor Richard Todd−on the wily ways of "the loveliest bird that flies." The call of the pinkfoot, says Thorpe, is the most difficult to imitate. By recording the geese's ringing ung-unk on tape, he learned to distinguish between the gander's imperious high bark and the lower cry of the female. Out on the marshes he does both, relying on "sturdy vocal cords and plenty of cover...