Word: bum
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Military Government in Korea has just given us 5,000,000 yen ($333,000) and equipment and supplies worth much more -automobiles, gasoline, shoes and cots; and we think if we behave ourselves somebody will give us more. We also have an American colonel as adviser to General Li Bum Suk, who heads the Boy Scout movement...
...Million. Later, in Seoul, Boy Scouts brought us bowls of bitter Korean tea in General Li Bum Suk's second-floor office. Looking alertly at us through his black, tortoise-rimmed glasses, General Li outlined his movement. "We Koreans have behind us 4,000 years of good history. The present situation is confused only because the people have forgotten their heritage. Our nation must have the strength to prevent invasion by another nation and we must build up our youth to this...
When the war ended, Billy "went on the bum, mostly because I wanted to find a way to the top." He found that way six months later, back in New York. One night in a Manhattan delicatessen, he met some songwriters. After Baruch, they looked to Billy like "a buncha dumb-heads"-until somebody told him they made 40 and 50 grand a year. "Just like that," says Rose, "I decided that this was the grift...
...just a young heavyweight champion, he thought nothing of flattening seven third-raters in one year. It kept him in practice, and pleased the promoters, the public and his pocketbook. Last week Joe Louis was feeling his full 32 years. To the press he announced: "I did the Bum-of-the-Month thing, you know . . . but it isn't worth while now, not at my age." Then, for lack of an able-bodied foe, he-called off the fight he had scheduled for June...
...fence by a group of youngsters, until the inmate cried: "Come.on in, boys. They'll get you sooner or later." Haunted by this threat, young Maine never doubted that he would eventually be "caged." At 16, he ran away from home and his harsh stepfather. He became a bum and was first caged in a Hawaiian mental hospital. There he was greeted by a burly attendant who looked him over, observed: "We get it over with," and doubled up the new patient with a hard punch to the stomach...