Word: muk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three months have passed since Soviet tanks smashed the barricades of Budapest -but the unfinished revolution burns on in Hungarian hearts. Inside Hungary a new rebel watchword is spreading from factory to hamlet: "MUK," from the first letters of the words for "In March we shall rise again...
Stocky, sharp-faced Journalist Paik Chung Muk, 38, is foreign-educated (Japan and Germany) and possessor of a biting intellectual intensity. Said he: "I read every work Harold Laski wrote. I worshiped him for years. Then I realized I was wrong. Now I am back on more solid ground." What had wrought the change? Paik downed the equivalent of half a jigger of Four Roses whisky from a cracked porcelain cup, chased it with a handful of warm pine nuts, and went on: "Many of my former friends are now with the Communists in the north. I almost went with...