Word: hangings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there was a difference between the Japanese and the Russians. Under the Russians no one dared ask whether a missing person had, in fact, been arrested. The people of Pyongyang found themselves repeating over & over a phrase familiar to all Germans a decade before. In Korean the phrase is hang bong pul myung-address unknown...
Four Anterooms. Pyongyang may have a Korean name, but it was a Russian-run city. In every house, shop and office hang pictures of Stalin and Lenin. The biggest hotel in Pyongyang is known simply as "the Russian hotel." For two full blocks around the Russian embassy in Pyongyang every house is a Russian house. On the city's main thoroughfare the Russians maintained their own commissary, a steel-shuttered building crammed with excellent wines, vodkas, caviar and cosmetics. In the embassy itself we found expensive radios and photographic equipment, heavy silver ashtrays and a completely cooked meal which...
...invitation. Since then, the cost of living has been rising and labor has been asking. With prices up about 7.1% and profits up nearly 15% since the invasion of South Korea, employers did not put up much resistance. Some did not wait to be asked: they wanted to hang on to their help...
Coach Bruce Munro commented last night, "We have a debt to pay Connecticut for last year's 1 to 0 penalty kick shutout. Their coach is an old friend of mine and I'd really like to hang a good one on them...
...spirit among the students so strong that they would remain nostalgic about college long after graduation. It is doubtful whether anything every became of the Eisenhower wish. Apparently greenery, some fine old buildings, and a sense of community are necessary to create that mood which never lets some men hang up their reacoon coats...