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Word: koreans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...emphasis on jooche (national identity) should pay off nicely. Even before he patched things up with Moscow, the North Korean boss had made strides in rebuilding his nation. Pyongyang-completely leveled during the Korean War-has been reconstructed along Moscow mausoleum lines:broad, empty boulevards; vast worker apartment buildings that house stores and restaurants on their ground floors."It's the dullest city in the world, " says a recent Japanese visitor, "but one senses an atmosphere of fierce pride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Korea: A Change of Course For the Flying Red Horse | 10/8/1965 | See Source »

Injury & Insult. In keeping with the new nationalism, Kim permits women to wear colorful national costume rather than pajama-style uniforms; men wear Western-style suits. Even the Peking-to-Pyongyang railroad is "Koreanized" when it clatters across the Yalu into North Korea: the Chinese dining car is unhitched and replaced by one serving spicy Korean kimchi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Korea: A Change of Course For the Flying Red Horse | 10/8/1965 | See Source »

Hughes compared the Vietnamese war with the Korean war of '50-'53, which he found more justified than the present conflict...

Author: By Stephen D. Lerner, | Title: Morgenthau: U.S. Failing To Respond To Revolution | 9/28/1965 | See Source »

...Suyin made a literary reputation of sorts by telling, in A Many-Splendored Thing, all the revealing intimate details of her carryings-on in Hong Kong with a married British foreign correspondent who got killed in the Korean War. Several autobiographical exposés later, Eurasian Suyin, now 48, tells again of herself, this time as a child, and of the declining fortunes of her father's Mandarin family at a time of chaos, civil war and foreign depredation in China. "The characters in this book," says the author, "are not fictional, neither are the events...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dubious History | 9/17/1965 | See Source »

Since the Korean War, survival technique has become a standard part of U.S. military training. Some basic techniques for survival in the desert: drink water whenever you are thirsty, no matter how large or small your water supply is (if it runs out, it runs out; your ultimate endurance is not ensured by rationing it); rest in the shade through the heat of the day, travel only by night; keep your clothes on to minimize loss of body moisture through sweating; devise some sort of distress signal to attract attention from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Coming Through Alive | 9/10/1965 | See Source »

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