Word: yan
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...excitement of the audience mounted with every minute. The sellers of native beer, the sweetmeat vendors the "yan-tabur" (literally "sons of tables," thus "barrow-boys") and the "yan tala" (purveyors of hot cooked meats or other foodstuffs) offered their little trays of sugared delicacies, of spiced offals stuck on a wooden skewer and liberally dusted with hot pepper, of puffed cracknells fried golden brown in seething oil, passing up and down in endless procession amongst the assembled multitude...
...revamped first boat will have Forney Hutchinson at how; Yan Weymouth at two: Mike MacKenzie at three; Captain Jim Miller at four: Bob Russell at five: Bob Clement at six: Charles McCleannon at seven; Fred Kellogg at stroke; and Chris Hamilton...
...this and his considerable tax debt that are responsible for Saroyan's new book, Here Comes There Goes You Know Who, which the publishers hopefully label "an autobiography," but which belongs to a genre somewhere in between Bulfinch and Paul Bunyan (the latter, judging by the final -yan, perhaps also of Armenian extraction...
...Instantly the squatting students hurled themselves forward. They beat on the car with fists and poles, hammered its body and kicked the locked doors. Glass cracked in the windshield. The mob began rocking the car in rhythmic time to a chant of "Go hoh-mu, Ha-gachee!" or "Yan-kee. go hum!" Thousands of other students who had been snake-dancing and marching near by rushed to join in. A Socialist member of Parliament, wearing a red sash, looked on approvingly from the sidelines and puffed at a cigarette...
...Headed by a lead-footed woodchopper named Yan Kruminsh, who towers like a sequoia (7 ft. 3 in., 320 lbs.), the first Russian basketball team to visit the U.S. opened a six-game tour in Madison Square Garden, lost to the postgraduate amateurs of the Phillips Oilers...