Word: gook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some 750 Chinese Reds tried to storm a western-front strong point called T-Bone Hill, after stealthily cutting the U.N. barbed wire in the darkness. The next night, after an artillery and mortar barrage of 2,500 rounds, the Reds overran an eastern-front position called Luke the Gook's Castle, were later beaten off. Both attacks served merely as harassments, but they helped to make the winter nights ugly for U.N. troops. Shivering in three-above-zero cold on the Imjin sector, an 18-year-old soldier from The Bronx said: "It's like any other...
...course," he said, in explanation of the procedure,"the bad problem is parts. We don't do bad. If we come across anything on the road, damaged, we strip it for parts. When we got time, we send a party out to scour the road for vehicles, gook or otherwise." A jeep marked H.Q. 35 drove up. "You see old 35 there," said Sergeant Lloyd. "That is our reserve. Whenever a jeep comes up here and needs a part bad, we take it off old 35." How did he replace the parts on old 35? "Ah, that...
...mutters, "Where in hell are the goddam gooks?" meaning the South Korean policemen who should be here to handle the refugees. ("Gook" is the universal G.L word for any & all Koreans.) The thin file of soldiers and the still, dumb hundreds of refugees stand in the road facing each other. Then the moment is broken, the danger passes. A sergeant walks up to the old man with the stick, puts a hand on his shoulder and wheels him around, not roughly. The women break into a quick protesting chatter, and some of them move, as though blindly, down the road...
...social sciences (sample thesis : "The relationship of population density to residential propinquity as a factor in marriage selection"), they are "guesswork clad in long, flowing robes of gobbledy-gook." Meanwhile, mathematics, the only exact science, has become merely the tool of all the others. Scientists deserve to be slapped, according to Standen, because they have substituted the is for the ought. "That is why we must never allow ourselves to be ruled by scientists. They must be our servants, not our masters...