Word: yin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foot, 200-pound Foo Tak-yam last week visited Macao's Buddhist Kuan Yin Temple. His partly pious, partly sensual intention was to smoke opium and contemplate a successful, sinful life that began in peddling doughnuts and culminated in ruling the fabulous gambling industry of the Orient's Monte Carlo. Foo's celebration was under way when three Chinese entered the hilltop pagoda, pulled pistols from their long black gowns and whisked him away in a black sedan. Four days later his son received a preliminary ransom demand: one picul of gold (133⅓ lbs. in weight...
Macao rumor had it that he was sought by both the Chinese Central Government and the Communists as a collaborationist and profiteer. Despite the ransom note, many wondered whether the snatch at Kuan Yin Temple was for profit or politics-or both. At week's end the kidnappers upped the price to six piculs...
...funny, no, is funny, ho ho ho." Mr. Yin's answer, Lampy apologizes, digresses from this point...
...Ching La Yin, a Chow, operator of a laundry and collar pressing establishment... "Voly had, sitilation practically intolilable. Have thiee sons, Ching Lo, Ching Loo, and Ching Loo. Two are in Army, one is Plivate first class, other is not so Plivate, second class. Other day, Mrs. Yin...
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