Word: kils
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opens up all Iran outside the older Persian Gulf fields-now being developed by a consortium of British, Dutch, French and 14 U.S. oil firms. For exploration, the land will be divided into blocks of some 80,000 sq. kil., with an unspecified third of the area held in reserve for future exploitation. It will allow foreign companies either to share the costs of exploration and development with the state-owned National Iranian Oil Co., or go it alone; in either case NIOC will take at least half the profits. Among the areas opened up: the fabulous Qum oilfield...
...Sept. 1952, Robert W. Toth, while serving as sergeant of the guard at a U.S. Air Force bomb dump in Taegu, Korea, was involved in the killing of a South Korean civilian named Bang Soon Kil. But before murder charges were brought against him, Toth was honorably discharged from the Air Force and went to work in a Pittsburgh steel mill. Five months later Civilian Toth was taken into custody by air police to stand court-martial for the murder. Toth's arrest brought on an important and far-reaching struggle between the civil and military systems of justice...
...unfortunate "gook." a South Korean civilian named Bang Soon Kil, was taken to a secluded revetment, where the guard killed him with a single shot. "I didn't want anything to do with it," Toth claimed, "so I got the hell out of there. When I was back at the guardhouse. I heard a shot, got into the jeep and went back to the bomb dump. When I got there, I saw the gook lying on the ground...
What had bitten Boston was the news that last year's winners, Kee Yong Ham, Kil Yoon Song and Yun Chil Choi, had been granted temporary deferments and were training for the marathon near Pusan. The Boston American published a smoking editorial headlined, WHO Is TRAINING FOR WHAT? and ran a picture layout of U.S. soldiers marching through the snow with the caption, BOSTONIANS TRAINING FOR KOREA...
This year Coach Kee took three new finds to Boston: National Champion Yun Chil Choi, 21, who is a freshman at Korea Christian College, and two high-school students, Kil Yoon Song, 21, and Kee Yong Ham, 19. Their 7,000-mile plane trip was financed by the Korean government and popular national subscription. Their 26-mile trip over the marathon route was fueled by Korean kimchi, a mixture of garlic and onions, hot peppers and chopped cabbage...