Word: yeh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Israeli tape through an electronic filtering process to eliminate static, Kersta chose 25 basic phonetic elements from the voice believed to be Nasser's, and the same elements from the CBS recording. These "phonemes," as they are called, included such sounds as ah, ee, eye, o and yeh, which are common to both English and Arabic. Words from the tapes containing the phonemes were then fed into a spectrograph, which electronically translated them into signals that activated a stylus...
...There was a kind of dignity, a kind of apprehension in their approach," one spectator noted. "Yeh, sort of like a pilgrimage," another added. But soon the whole beach crowd was jumping into the cascade of suds, which came up to their knees, thighs, armpits. One plump sculptress plunked herself down, let the foam flow over her. Explained a Happener: "I'm exposing the five senses to a completely irrational environment." The suds were harmless, and they sent Kaprow into raptures. Said he: "It was like tons and tons of danger kissing you like a powder puff...
...Yeh," said another, "there's traditional rivalry between Stoughton and Holworthy...
...local woman commune member, Yeh Hsiang-shu (poor peasant), cut off and stole from this production group seven heads of white cabbage totaling 6 chin. Yeh, when forced to speak, had to admit that her husband Chou Hsing-jung had also stolen some vegetables. The production group seized Chou also, then took man and wife, with hands tied, and hung them by the wrists from the basketball goal for ten minutes. Then Platoon Commander Yang Ju-hsing announced two conditions: "First, they must give us back 3,000 catties (two tons) of cabbage; second, if they do not give...
...dubious icebreaker at best, but downright troublesome when addressed to an unstable suburbanite (John Ireland) who that very evening has carved up his wife with a kitchen knife and buried her body in the woods. To the girls he sounds "sexy ... a swinger." They phone again. Yeh, yeh...