Word: choo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...support of the officialdom, including the military, and high marks from most observers. His Cabinet, sworn in before his own inauguration, seemed to be both neutral and competent. Selected as Prime Minister was Shin Hyon Hwack, a technocrat and former economic planning chief. The new Defense Minister was General Choo Young Bok, known as "Tiger Choo" to American officers in Seoul, and, curiously, the first South Korean Defense Minister with a knowledge of English good enough for direct communication with U.S. commanders. According to President Choi's earlier promise, the newly installed Cabinet's most important immediate task...
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...class car. There are privacy and freedom and a sense of camaraderie aboard. Things not there seem almost as important: no seat belts, Muzak, or portentous announcements; no sardine-can seating, yowling infants, elusive nanny-stewardesses, plastic trays of plastic food. And, St. Christopher be praised, no made-for-choo-choo movies...
...sacred or familial about the book's characters. Doctors, architects, models, painters and intellectuals, they inhabit the chic world of urban haute bourgeoisie. Moral conventions and religious convictions have been replaced by easy sex and superficial nostalgia. At a party, two women sing the '40s hit Chattanooga Choo-Choo, while an argument ensues over whether there were three or four Andrews Sisters. Inane chat, vacuous stares, Bauhaus settings and Pucci puppets form a familiar narrative glaze...
...Choo-Choo was not known particularly for his wit (not to mention his ball-playing), but that's the kind of thing that happens when the grand old game of baseball emerges from its winter hibernation and the delightful ritual of spring training begins...