Word: pusan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Monday night in the other half of the semifinals against the Hall club. The mock arguments concerned an insurance case on which the Supreme Court announced a decision Tuesday. Tonight's mock proceedings involve jurisdiction in the case of army private Walter L. Tickle, who shot a Korean near Pusan...
...official rate. His decision cost the U.S. military in Korea millions of dollars in unnecessary expense, and gave many South Koreans lush windfalls. In holding to 180 to $1, Rhee also broke his 1953 agreement with the U.S., by which the hwan is supposed to be pegged to the Pusan wholesale price index (which, at that time, would have given him a generous rate...
...Dean decided to give the Communists a real fight. He sent the bulk of his troops south to dig in for the next battle, and stayed on himself in Taejon with elements of the 19th and 34th Regiments to direct the last and greatest delaying action before the Pusan perimeter...
...decisive nature of Dean's holding action outside Taejon. He carried out the maneuver under the worst possible conditions, was forced to feed his green forces piecemeal into the fray, but he succeeded in stopping the Communists. If the Communists had had a clear right of way to Pusan, the war would have ended right there. There is no doubt that this was one of the. great pivotal points of the war. Personally, I feel that Dean has become one of the truly giant figures among this country's more heroic leaders...
...last week, after putting the family rice on to boil over her charcoal pot, Mrs. Ko II Nam took a housewife's chance and strolled out to pass the time with a neighbor in the alleys of Pusan's cluttered, teeming Yongju district. When Mrs. Ko returned, the rice had boiled over, the charcoal had spilled onto the floor, and the straw matting of her tiny shack was afire. Moments later the entire house was ablaze. As neighbors tried to put out the fire, a brisk wind whipped the flames against the houses next door, and soon they...