Word: ko
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kill bird," said foxy little Annamite Louis Ko. "He no like. He like kill big." Pressagent Louis was speaking of his master, tall, strapping, Paris-educated Bao Dai, who once killed ten elephants in three days and captured a live one singlehanded...
...played last week in Tokyo.* Nervous, white-haired Michio Ito, who had spent 20 years in the U.S. directing dance productions, had rehearsed the cast for two months. The 49-man Tokyo Philharmonic had been drilled on the tricky rhythms of Sullivan's music. Kiyoshi Takagi, as Ko-Ko, had learned how to sing "teet wiro. teet wiro." The producers had gambled a whopping 1,800,000 yen ($36,000) on the production. Reserved seats went for 80 yen, the highest theater prices in Japanese history...
...Times No. In Ohro, Japan, five thieves, offered 2,000 yen by Mrs. Ko Nagashima, snorted, "We couldn't take a paltry sum like that," made her go next door and borrow 10,000 more...
...charge of the occupation is Lieut. Colonel Thurman A. Stout, whose briefing begins with an epoch several milleniums before Marx. In that dim past (so the legend goes), Cheju's founding fathers (Ko, Yang and Pu) emerged from three large openings in the earth to be joined presently by three Japanese women (who arrived by boat). As their offspring developed, a strange mutation occurred among the Kos, the Yangs and the Pus. The seaborne women settled down on the land while the earthborn men roamed the oceans and found other mates in foreign parts. The grass widows developed...
Male Revolution. Last week TIME Correspondent Bill Gray hopped over from Korea to see how things were going on Cheju. Its white mountain and green valleys were as beautiful as reported, he cabled, and three grassy, fenced-off holes in the ground-whence Ko, Yang and Pu supposedly had come-were still being tended and revered in a small park (not far from a more recent Jap-built air-raid shelter). In recent centuries a permanent male population had been established on the island, but women still outnumbered the men. The old native description of the island-"Too much wind...