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    Chinaman's chance is an American idiom which means that a person has little or no chance at success, synonymous with similar idioms of improbability such...
    29 KB (3,179 words) - 03:27, 29 April 2024
  • Chinese Must Go!", coined in the 1870s before Chinaman acquired a derogatory association. The term Chinaman's chance evolved as the Chinese began to take on...
    35 KB (3,636 words) - 21:31, 3 November 2024
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    You're More Powerful Than You Think is a citizen's guide to the practice of power. His book A Chinaman's Chance (2014) explores being Chinese American...
    12 KB (1,103 words) - 23:28, 23 October 2024
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    Prison Break, a character he describes as "a guilty pleasure to play, wonderfully complex and devious". He appeared in Chinaman's Chance, about which he...
    14 KB (703 words) - 13:15, 7 November 2024
  • one point in the short, a mischievous mouse that Flip tries to apprehend scoots up the secretary's skirt. In A Chinaman's Chance (1933), Flip and his dog...
    20 KB (1,473 words) - 01:36, 17 November 2024
  • 'Chinaman’s Chance': Possibilities and Limitations of Immigrant Autobiography], 외국문학연구 (in Korean), pp. 31–49 Mary Paik Lee (1990). Quiet Odyssey: A Pioneer...
    7 KB (745 words) - 06:46, 25 September 2024
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    Variety. "Chinaman's Chance: America's Other Slaves". The A.V. Club. TSAI, MARTIN (January 1, 2015). "Review: 'Two Hundred Thousand Dirty' a low-budget...
    64 KB (4,552 words) - 00:34, 13 November 2024
  • The Chinaman Pacific and Frisco R.R. Co. is a 1988 short-story collection by Frank Chin that collects many of the short stories he had published in the...
    10 KB (1,389 words) - 19:10, 2 November 2024
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    A columnist in Boston said that Bush "is coming on to be known as President Truman's Harry Hopkins. Nobody knows Mr. Bush and he hasn't a Chinaman's chance...
    26 KB (2,535 words) - 07:19, 8 November 2024
  • "there's a good chance I'll do something like that again, probably in the next week, not on purpose. Only 'cause it's how my brain works." Time called it a "pseudo-apology"...
    40 KB (3,926 words) - 00:02, 1 November 2024
  • a man who is desperate for money is offered the chance to make a fortune. All he has to do is commit an anonymous murder, where he will not even have...
    6 KB (726 words) - 20:41, 2 October 2024
  • still standing in Laie, Hawaii. The opening credit scene of Hawaii is Chinaman's hat, a popular destination in itself. The road they drive on each day is...
    38 KB (3,617 words) - 03:19, 7 November 2024
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    shake off the feeling that their authors somehow must have known Bely, even though there's not a chance that they did. — Simon Karlinsky, The New York Times...
    20 KB (2,093 words) - 20:06, 13 September 2024
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    these efforts would have completely wiped out the Cham population were it not for the overthrow of the Khmer Rouge in 1979. In a Khmer Rouge official...
    157 KB (18,272 words) - 09:42, 15 November 2024
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    Pol Pot (category Leaders ousted by a coup)
    have a lot of experience. It's better than ours. We don't have the right to criticise you ... Basically you are right. Have you made mistakes or not?...
    146 KB (19,469 words) - 07:07, 18 November 2024
  • eat horse feces for a chance to kiss Dee, which she refused since, as she says, "his breath smelled like shit". Mac and Dennis have been teabagging Cricket...
    67 KB (8,792 words) - 17:21, 13 November 2024
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    get the DVDs back until the investigation is over." Chong said he did not have any ownership of the film. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette later amended its...
    40 KB (3,638 words) - 04:24, 17 November 2024
  • includes East Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. Asian-origin populations have historically been in the territory that would eventually become the United...
    47 KB (5,432 words) - 09:02, 19 October 2024
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    Race 2000 (1975), and afterward as Clem in White Line Fever (1975). Kove was a regular on the TV series Cagney and Lacey (1982–1988), portraying Police Detective...
    21 KB (971 words) - 09:47, 18 November 2024
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    affected trade does not have to be connected to the ongoing war. Since 1974 the Trade Act of 1974 allows the president to impose a 15% tariff for 150 days...
    155 KB (14,099 words) - 11:50, 17 November 2024
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