Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Battle of Compound 62 Compound 62 is one of the toughest in the prison camp on Korea's Koje Island. Communist leaders among the 5,900 civilian internees hold mass demonstrations, sing Communist songs, refuse to work, and intimidate the other prisoners with beatings and occasional murders...
Last week the island's commander, Colonel Maurice J. Fitzgerald, ordered the combat-famed U.S. 27th (Wolfhound) Regiment, which now guards Koje, to screen Compound 62 and give the non-Communists a chance to get out. At 5:30 a.m., a battalion of Wolfhounds under Major John J. Klein of Houston, Texas, moved in hoping to catch the prisoners asleep. But prisoner sentinels gave the alarm...
...more desirable for the country's young men. Selective Service would remain to plague them with rapidly shifting quotas and deferment standards, and local draft boards would still have the power to compound the confusion. Whether they were reservists or not, students and other potentially deferable young men would still be unable to predict their status from year to year. And this uncertainty would continue to make it impossible for them to plan their careers intelligently...
...staff-a Korean-American captain-can speak either Korean or Chinese. Said one officer to TIME Tokyo Bureau Chief Dwight Martin: "If we want to question a prisoner, we have to keep him isolated until we're through with him. If we return him to the compound, he'll slip off in the mob and change his name." Said another: "We could have Mao Tse-tung and Kim II Sung both in the same compound and never know...
Some of the prisoners are packed into crude, earth-floored barracks, and the rest live in tents. About 8,000 P.W.s are harbored in each compound, about twice as crowded as they should be. They sleep on straw mats, and each man has two blankets. They are fed three times a day-rice, beans, fish, pepper mash, soy sauce. This is a nourishing, 2,800-calorie diet, on which many prisoners have gained weight...