Word: rhees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year to go until West Germany's next general election, German voters had been presented with what seemed to them clear evidence that Konrad Adenauer's credit in Washington was decreasing. ("Adenauer," predicted the pro-Socialist Frankfurter Rundschau, "will be overrun by history, just like Syngman Rhee.") Simultaneously, the Socialist argument that it was senseless for West Germany to introduce conscription at a time when other nations were reducing conventional forces took on new plausibility. Last week both of West Germany's leading polls showed substantial Socialist gains amongst the voters, making them for the first time...
...illiterate, housebound servants to a status they had never known before. This week, at 70, Ewha is not only the largest (4,800 students) women's university in Korea, it is also one of the most respected of all the nation's universities. Said President Syngman Rhee at the 70th anniversary celebration: "I express my thanks to God that our women's university has grown so large and will continue to grow. For the past 70 years, Ewha has steadfastly gone forward with a good, true goal...
Bamboo Sticks. True, Rhee's opponents were more vociferous than ever before, and there were anti-Rhee riots in the cities. But that hardly seemed enough to upset Rhee's well-organized political machine. Anti-Rhee campaigners were harassed by strong-arm squads of government backers. And in towns and villages throughout South Korea, the republic's 48,000 police openly stumped for Rhee and Lee. What possibly could happen to dim Syngman Rhee's inevitable victory...
...ballots had been printed before Shinicky's death, and still bore his name. There were few incidents and no certified cases of interference with the voters. By nightfall, the huge unpainted boxes began to give up their secret. It proved to be a bitter one for Syngman Rhee. In a revolt that spread through cities and villages alike, the people of South Korea had dealt Rhee and his government a stunning blow...
...Rhee, of course, was reelected, but by the lowest margin of his career-barely more than half the vote. The late P. H. Shinicky polled an extraordinary ghost vote of nearly 1,500,000. But the real surprise of the ballot box was the defeat of Rhee's hand-picked vice presidential candidate by Rhee's bitter foe, husky, affable, 56-year-old Chang Myun, who anglicizes his name as John M. Chang. A onetime friend of Rhee's and former Korean Ambassador to Washington, U.S.-educated (Manhattan College) Chang thus became eligible to succeed Rhee...