Word: chun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Christmas Eve lowering clouds hung over Seoul and gusts of bone-chilling rain lashed the streets, drenching the policemen who stood guard with slung carbines outside the Assembly. Inside, the sit-down strike continued. Opposition Assemblymen slept beside their desks. In a seat near the rostrum, tiny Park Soon Chun, the only woman member of the Democratic Party in the Assembly, tiredly wiped her glasses...
...plainclothesmen suddenly roared into the street, drew up at the Assembly entrance. Moving at the double, the police burst through the flimsy barricades and charged the Assemblymen. A tangle of fighting, cursing men rolled on the floor or tumbled over desks, chairs and other writhing bodies. Park Soon Chun went down from a blow to the jaw. One by one, bleeding and still struggling, the sit-down strikers were hauled from the chamber and down the corridors, past jeering, pro-government Assemblymen of the Liberal Party. Eight had to be sent to the hospital...
...machinery and blowing oxygen." Older teen-agers more molten-steel ladles, refine ore and build the brick linings of furnaces. The "young pioneers" work no more than six hours a day, get one day off a week and, the party claims, are gaining weight. Fourteen-year-old Student Pai Chun-hsiang, according to the official account, surprised his fearful parents by becoming a "hardcore member of the factory's materials-preparation section, assistant chief of oxygen blowing, and invented a method of melting aluminum which saves much money for the State...
...with the Golden Rule. In Hong Kong, detectives spotted Chiu Chun Kai piously walking about with a Bible in his hand, opened it, found seven packets of heroin hidden between its covers...
...quickly dipped the brush again in the porcelain bowl of mixed water and ink, drew a long soaring line in one continuous, caressing gesture to form the narrow bamboo shoot, then rapidly brushed in the broad leaves. In two minutes, 40 seconds the painting was completed. As Huang Chun-pi turned smiling to face the crowded room, the audience burst into applause. Thus Formosa's leading landscape artist and teacher last week demonstrated his technique in the lecture room of Manhattan's China House, crowded to overflowing with curious Manhattan artists and Huang's old pupils...