Word: 38th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shirtsleeves, sun-back dresses and shorts, 24,636 Chicago racing fans last week crowded into Washington Park, for the 38th running of a famous Midwest race, the American Derby. Only five horses were entered in the race: Calumet Farm's Citation just looked too good to beat...
...Boris Goldovsky and [Manhattan's City Opera boss] Laszlo Halasz, theater men like Oscar Hammerstein II and Robert Edmond Jones." Others: Stage Directors Elia Kazan, Jose Ferrer, Rouben Mamoulian; Choreographers Agnes de Mille, Antony Tudor, Jerome Robbins. "Who would sit in the 37th [he meant the 38th] chair...
...Moscow agreement, Russia, the U.S. and Britain promised to restore Korean self-government in due course. They divided the country at the 38th parallel, thus impoverishing both north and south. The Russians had forced North Koreans to boycott the U.N. supervised elections which made Rhee President, and currently were cooking a Soviet-style one-name-per-office election of a puppet government...
...central Korea, a party of U.S. soldiers and correspondents stopped beside a weathered wooden post. On the post was stenciled in orange paint "U.S. 47." "That's Marker 47," said a G.I. "Over the hill there's another one. That's all there is to the 38th parallel. Just a few posts...
Said Dr. Kimm: "I've come back feeling very much encouraged ..." Mr. Kim still feared that U.N.-sponsored elections in South Korea would split the country permanently at the 38th parallel, but he said: "We promise not to encourage strife...