Word: shin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...April 9, 1975, eight alleged members of the People's Revolutionary Party were hanged. The PRP, so far as known, does not exist, but had been invented by the present chief of the KCIA, Shin Jik Soo some ten years earlier to provide a pretext for this kind of action. Two American churchmen, the Rev. George Ogle, a United Methodist, and Father James Sinnott, a Maryknoll priest in Korea since 1960, were expelled from Korea for attempting to refute the government's charges...
Early that morning the 335 starting drivers had pulled on hockey shin guards, corset-like plastic chest protectors, and all the cold-weather gear they could wear and still waddle to the starting line. Temperatures were in the low 20s, balmy by St. Paul standards, but at the 80-m.p.h. speeds the racers would soon be traveling, the wind-chill factor would make it seem like -20°. Some of the drivers fashioned long tape-and-rubber noses to keep the vapor of their breath from fogging their goggles. Others applied wide strips of tape to their faces to ward...
...woods. Now we are sprinting, leaping over logs, crashing through small brush, legs and arms flailing. We try to pace a 200-meter leg but fail, losing the count at the bottom of a hill where we have plunged into unexpected muddy ooze. We stand, gasping for breath, shin deep in the freezing mud, tracing our path on the map. We are on the track. We pull our feet out of the mire, skirt the swamp and climb the hill...
...House. Other possible witnesses are becoming hard to reach. Kim Sang Keun's erstwhile boss. Major General Kim Yung Hwan, the KCIA chief in the U.S., was reported being held under virtual house arrest in the Korean embassy in Washington. In Seoul, meanwhile, President Park fired KCIA Boss Shin Jik Soo in an apparent attempt to improve relations with Washington...
Team captain Bill Campbell, who was hampered by shin splints, crossed the line in an uncharacteristic eleventh place. Hallo said that "Campbell had not been working out with the team this past week...