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Word: yung (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years ago, mystery resides in the vision of his mother, magically poised on the hall sill, washing the outside windows ("Don't fall, Mom. Please don't fall"). Laughter erupts from three colleens parodying a Nat King Cole hit ("They tried to sell us egg foo yung"). The recollected terror of a vicious father can be tempered by his early death. The daughter who vowed, "If I ever get a gun, I'll blow your bleedin' brains out," will sob on her wedding day, "I want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Family Ties | 8/14/1989 | See Source »

...from attending the Texas barbecue that Bush gave at the Great Wall Sheraton Hotel to salute Chinese dignitaries at the end of an otherwise friendly visit to Beijing. The invitation infuriated the Chinese government, Fang's manhandling offended the U.S., and the Bush Administration was left with egg foo yung on its face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China The Furious Flap over Fang Lizhi | 3/13/1989 | See Source »

...father is wholeheartedly for Yale," said Sonia C. Lee '91, whose father, Hong Yung Lee, is an assistant professor at a major Connecticut Ivy League institution. Lee said she'll be rooting for her own team--"otherwise it's not a family feud"--in spite of the fact that a Yale paycheck is financing her tuition. "People are not going to be disowned because of this issue," she said hopefully...

Author: By Jennifer Atkinson, | Title: For Some, The Game Will Be Like a Family Feud Episode | 11/19/1988 | See Source »

...Feelies leave the heavy messages at home. "We are not political," says Mercer. "If anything, we are spiritual." It must be a restless spirit just now, and a little bit anxious as well. Percussionist Dave Weckerman, 38, also free-lances in a Feelies spur group called Yung Wu and holds down a part-time job as a shipping clerk. Million, the only married band member, has a seven- year-old son and works behind the register at northern New Jersey's only rent- a-laser-disk store. Drummer Stan Demeski, 28, moved out of his mother's home only this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Dawn of the Feelies | 9/12/1988 | See Source »

...writers scheduled to read at the Signet are Pavel Srut of Czecho-slovakia, Mark Bloch of France, Dan Tsalka of Israel, Hernan Lara of Mexico, Dr. O. Sae Yung of Korea and Lada Galina of Bulgaria...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Six Writers To Appear At Signet | 12/5/1987 | See Source »

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