Word: manye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"I've fought 200 battles and never lost one," brags South Korea's army chief of staff, 41-year-old Lieut. General "Tiger" Song Yo Chan, and with some reason. An incorruptible, tough-minded professional, Song fought throughout World War II with the Japanese army, during the Korean...
Mahmud thanked his well-wishers and reassured them: "Just now, I did not feel the touch of death. I am filled with calmness. I am traveling to eternity in peace." He submitted once more to the noose. This time the rope held, and Mahmud went to death dancing on air...
Immediately upon his appointment as chief of staff, Song launched an investigation of the army from top to bottom. First results: the arrest of scores of crooked officers, from generals to lieutenants. Many were found to be taking bribes from contract-hungry businessmen -and in several cases even succeeded in...
What finally turned the tide in the Nacionalistas' favor was the vote from the barrios, the impoverished rural villages where an avalanche of government money proved helpful. By week's end the Nacionalistas seemed certain to elect five Senators-including Ramon Magsaysay's younger brother, Genaro, who...
After a month in Moscow, Georgia-born Author Erskine (God's Little Acre) Caldwell, 55, returned to the U.S. little richer but far wiser about the Soviets' fast way with a ruble. As one of the U.S.S.R.'s most popular U.S. writers (others: Mark Twain, Jack London...