Word: bonging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week. He was credited with 37½* Nazi planes (four on one mission) in Europe during World War II, had added two Communist MIG-15s to his bag in Korea, and was just half a victory short of the alltime record put up by the late Major Richard Bong. His group, flying sleek, swept-wing F-86 jets, had destroyed or damaged 91 Russian jets, had lost only two of their...
...split" allegedly went back to post-VJ days when the Russians occupied northern Korea. The first puppet Pyongyang regime had been a coalition of two kinds of Korean comrades. One faction, led by scholarly Kim Tu Bong, had been trained in the Chinese Communists' stronghold in Yenan. The other, under truculent Kim Il Sung, had a Moscow background...
...faction favored by Russia soon got into the saddle. Korea became a Kremlin show-until Kim Il Sung's army was crushed last fall. Then (according to the Times), China-trained Kim Tu Bong called for peace; he was executed. The Chinese Communists, the story went on, waited for Russia's Korean satellite forces to disintegrate; then they marched in from Manchuria, reversed the Red rout without Russian tanks or other heavy materiel, kicked Kim Il Sung on to the sidelines, took over the show in Korea...
...difference between the Japanese and the Russians. Under the Russians no one dared ask whether a missing person had, in fact, been arrested. The people of Pyongyang found themselves repeating over & over a phrase familiar to all Germans a decade before. In Korean the phrase is hang bong pul myung-address unknown...
...reader could just look at the picture and say, "BONG...