Word: chungli
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...could cut himself loose with a knife. The 82nd's commander, Major General John Deane, parachuted smack into the middle of an icy 50-ft.-wide stream. He was hastily fished out and draped in a dry parka before going to meet South Korea's President Chung Hee Park at a reviewing stand near...
...enactment of a scene that belongs in the weirder annals of diplomacy. In the one-story hut in Panmunjom that has seen hundreds of meetings since the 1953 truce that ended the Korean War, U.S. Army Major General Gilbert H. Woodward sat down opposite North Korean Major General Pak Chung Kuk. "The position of the U.S.," said General Woodward, the top U.N. member of the armistice commission, "has been that the ship was not engaged in illegal activities, that there is no convincing evidence that the ship at any time intruded into territorial waters claimed by North Korea, and that...
...Chung Hee-Park, the courageous President of South Korea. Our friend and ally, he has guided his countrymen toward a new hope for prosperity and tranquillity-in a land where suffering and anguish have so long endured...
...more than just his playing. He advises him when to appear publicly, what to wear, how to carry himself. He corrected Young Uck Kim's habit of hitching up his trousers while onstage. He was tough on prankish Arnold Steinhardt, to give him discipline; with shy Kyung-Wha Chung, a co-winner of the 1967 Leventritt Award, he was kindly and patient, to give her confidence. Galamian constantly worries that sex will distract his best students from their careers. At Meadowmount, the summer school for string players he founded in upstate New York, his most famous exhortation...
...Major General Richard Ciccolella, violated past practice and started addressing his opposite number directly with such salty salutations as "Pak, you bastard ..." Once, when Ciccolella stared out a window while the North Korean side was trying to make a point from a chart, North Korean Major General Pak Chung Kuk admonished him in passable English: "Look at the goddam chart...