Word: pusan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moral Support. But if, in fact, Korean wives often did take their purchases straight to the side streets of Seoul, Pusan and Taegu, which are lined with black markets whose vendors do not even bother to remove the PX labels from their wares, they were not the only source of supply. As one Korean put it: "Much of the stuff never gets to the PX in the first place. It goes straight to the black market from the warehouse." Sometimes it never even gets to the warehouse; last week a truckload of 84 cases of U.S. butter valued...
Every now and then a strong gust of wind whipped through the big stadium at Pusan, but at first the 70,000 children and parents in the audience paid no attention. Onstage, as the restless bunting snapped and waved, a troop of comedians and singers was putting on a special children's show, and the audience giggled and roared. But some among the parents began to notice black clouds massing in the sky, and remembered that a typhoon had been reported offshore that very morning. The performers sensed the danger, too, for they began to race through their acts...
...command (in August) of Army forces in Alaska: lean, grey-haired Major General John H. Michaelis, 46, onetime (1947-48) aide-de-camp to Chief of Staff Dwight Eisenhower, combat-proved commander (1950-51) of the famed 27th Infantry ("Wolfhound") Regiment, which held off North Korean armies in the Pusan perimeter while U.S. forces massed for a crushing breakthrough...
...novel is centered upon London, a city struggling to forget the Pusan road, "the Commonwealth youngsters skewered on the Dieppe beaches," and Kenya's savage snipers. As the story unfolds-it is seen through the plain, distressed eyes of Captain Alan Curtis, veteran of Korea, Kenya, Cyprus-TV Tycoon Lord Arthur Illius announces plans for a Festival of London. A prize, gravely named the Grail, is offered to the citizen who contributes the best ideas to the festival, so all Britain is abuzz with ludicrous suggestions: "Demands to restore the pillory; to rebuild horse-troughs; proposals that women should...
...copilot, U.S. Air Force Lieut. Colonel Howard McClellan (logging flying hours with Air Force permission), a West German businessman and his wife, and 30 Koreans, including the chief information officer of the Korean air force, an energetic, Communist-investigating member of the Korean National Assembly, and, police at Pusan theorized, some half-dozen North Korean agents...