Word: ju
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when forced to speak, had to admit that her husband Chou Hsing-jung had also stolen some vegetables. The production group seized Chou also, then took man and wife, with hands tied, and hung them by the wrists from the basketball goal for ten minutes. Then Platoon Commander Yang Ju-hsing announced two conditions: "First, they must give us back 3,000 catties (two tons) of cabbage; second, if they do not give us the cabbage, they must take off their trousers and thank us for our kindness." Yeh soon had all her clothes taken off. Chou refused to shed...
Blacked out for two hours were some 50 cities and towns, including El Paso, Ciudad Juárez, Truth or Consequences, Las Cruces and Alamogordo...
After the great blackout in the north eastern U.S. (TIME cover, Nov. 19), El Paso Electric Co. President Ray Lockhart, whose outfit serves a 13,200-sq.-mi. area of southwest Texas, southern New Mexico and the Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez, bragged that nothing like that could ever happen to his customers. Last week...
...never did. On the way home, Jong Mong-ju was ambushed and assassinated...
Poetry in medieval Korea was an aristocratic art that was practiced principally in an aristocratic form: sijo. The word means "time rhythm," and it describes a flexible tercet that has the form of a syllogism and the force of a heroic haiku. Yi Bang-won and Jong Mong-ju addressed each other in sijo, and over the next five centuries their example was emulated by thousands of eminent statesmen, generals and courtesans. A vast literature of sijo resulted, and even these stiff translations by Inez Kong Pai suggest that it is a poetic form whose recognition by the West...