Word: mansei
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...Korean P.W.s were more reserved than their Chinese comrades. They peered, blinking, from boxcars as the crowd gave them apples, cakes, caramels and tea. "Mansei, mansei [Long live]," the P.W.s said, while a station loudspeaker repeatedly blared the Lullaby of Broadway. Then Syngman Rhee paid them recorded tribute. In their stand against the Communist explainers, said President Rhee, the P.W.s had dealt the Communists "the most resounding ideological defeat in their history." But there was deep sadness in the gayly bedecked station, and the welcome soon turned into a wake. Old men and women shuffled along the platform, showing...
...industrial suburb where U.S. marines had such a rough time last September, the dough-feet now walked without opposition. The town was silent and empty. After a while an old man and some boys appeared, clapped their hands, cried: "O.K.! O.K.!"' On stone walls, there were Communist signs: "Mansei, People's Army! Mansei, Kim Il Sung...
...whitewings of Seoul (old women with brushwood brooms) swept the capital's main streets early one morning last week. Later, the tong-yang (block leaders) hustled out 100,000 residents to shout mansei and wave proper flags in welcome for UNCURK, the United Nations Commission on Unification and Rehabilitation of Korea...
...March 1, 1919, people gathered throughout Korea to hear the Declaration of Independence read, to wave their forbidden Korean flags and to shout "Mansei." Then they were supposed to disperse quietly and go home. In many places they never got a chance to disperse quietly. Japanese troops charged into crowds, shooting, swinging swords and mutilating their victims with firemen's hooks. In the bloody week of Japanese "mopping up" operations, it was estimated that 200,000 Koreans had been arrested, 7,000 killed...
...smashed against the Americans' guns. As the Reds rushed up reserves, frantic G.I. gunners manning 13 guns lobbed a torrent of 155-mm. and 105-mm. shells into masses of green-clad North Koreans trying to move up along the hillsides. But the Reds kept on coming. Two "Mansei" (the Korean equivalent of the Japanese "Banzai") charges rolled up against the U.S. positions-and broke...