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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HUNGARY,: Of MUK & Mud | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KOREA: The Walnut | 3/9/1953 | See Source »

Samuel Stoney, Manhattan architect, native of Charleston, S. C., gave an accurate imitation of Gullah (early Negro) dialect: "Once deh bin ah nyung rat wat couldn't muk up eh mine. Whenebber duh turrah rat ax um ef e would like tuh come oudt widdum, e would muk ansuh, 'I dunno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Harrse, Hoss, Hawse | 8/13/1928 | See Source »

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