Word: huts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beside a Quonset hut at Kimpo Airport, more than 100 tired, unshaven infantrymen lolled in the dust, waiting patiently for planes that would take them to Tokyo. For some, Tokyo meant the first leg of the trip home. For others it meant only a temporary break in the dirty business of war. They had no yarns to swap, no desire to learn any more than they already knew about war. From a few groups came the click of dice, and the only voices audible over the distant roar of engines were the urgent pleas of crapshooters. At one group...
...heart. The "Grass Harp", for instance, is a field of tall Indian grass which "sighs" the wisdom of people buried in a cemetery near by. Avoiding the heavy symbolism of Thomas Mann, the author shows simply how several eccentric individuals and an evangelical caravan are drawn to the tree-hut in the "Harp", handled brutally by the suspicious town folk, and finally become resigned to their former life--much the wiser...
...hut village of Panmunjom, the place agreed on as the new site for cease-fire talks, the Communists put up a large tent. Under it, Communist and U.N. liaison officers met last week to haggle-not over peace, but over how wide the neutral zone must be in which to discuss the peace. At this point, two U.N. planes, strafing the Kaesong neutral area by mistake, killed a twelve-year-old Korean boy and wounded his two-year-old brother. After an investigation, General Matt Ridgway accepted responsibility for the occurrence, expressed his "heartfelt grief" and promised "prompt and appropriate...
General Ridgway, over the juniors' heads, appealed directly to Kim II Sung and Peng Teh-huai for a change of site to Songhyon, a mud-hut village eight miles southeast of Kaesong. Songhyon, said Ridgway, would have the advantage of being "approximately midway between the battle lines" and "it would, of course, be agreed by both sides that this meeting place would be kept free of armed troops and that both sides would abstain from any hostile acts...
Bamu, a practical type, replied, "My brother Aliu has a bad toe." Bamu is contemptuous of her husband's pretensions, and apt to trot back to Mama's hut when he runs out of money. But Johnson loves her dearly. Even the thought of her makes him break into song...