Word: bum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...automatic in hand. U.S. Lieut. Colonel Herbert Harmon stuck out his foot, tripping the assassin. As the Korean went down, Colonel Harmon clouted him in the neck, and another American officer disarmed the man. The silent scuffle escaped the crowd's notice, but Rhee's crony, Lee Bum Suk, the ambitious Home Minister, saw it all and interrupted his boss to tell the breathless crowd of the President's narrow escape. Twenty-eight minutes later, pro-Rhee newspapers were on the streets with extras-something of a record, and lending point to those who thought the murder...
...know who they are," said Rhee's propaganda directors blandly of the troublemaking goon squad. But an American who saw the show recognized one of the gang's leaders as a member of the rough, tough police force of Rhee's Home Minister Lee Bum...
...innocent farm girl who comes to Chicago in 1898 and gets involved with two men: Charles Drouet (Eddie Albert), a good-natured traveling salesman with whom she lives, and George Hurstwood (Laurence Olivier), a prosperous restaurant manager who gives up family and career for her, and ends up a bum and a suicide...
Give him the bum's rush, sans expenses...
...government in South Korea. He told his ministers he planned to dissolve the Assembly, which opposes him, amend the constitution, and seek his re-election by direct vote of the people, whom he manipulates through a lough police force and a controlled press. Rhee's chief crony, Lee Bum Suk, the Home Minister, supported the move. The end of Korea's infant parliament was set for noon...