Word: shinning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the test of war, the Rhee government showed surprising strength. Many of Rhee's cabinet members displayed administrative talent of a high order. Outstanding among them was Defense Minister Shin Sung Mo, who likes to be called "Captain," a rank he held in the British merchant marine during World War II. ("It's the title I worked hardest to earn.") It was Shin Sung Mo who masterminded the rapid reorganization of the R.O.K. army after its staggering initial defeats. Outstanding, too, was another Shin. Though not a Rhee supporter, able, eloquent Shin Ikhui, Speaker of the National...
...physical and mental ordeal beyond my powers to describe") to Correspondent Frank Conniff of Hearst's New York Journal-American, which splashed it across Page One-as did other Hearst papers. Churchill, who also got back under his own power, had a half-dollar-sized hole in his shin. But he calmly dictated a smooth, well-told story of the patrol to the Associated Press's Hal Boyle, to be sent on to his paper. By his notable lack of heroics, Reporter Churchill won back the regard of correspondents who had been offended by his toplofty manners...
...Formosa last week (see Danger Zones). Douglas MacArthur paid his second visit within a month to the Korean fighting front. MacArthur's plane put down at a newly completed dirt airstrip in South Korea. The general alighted, talked briefly with South Korean President Syngman Rhee, Prime Minister Shin Sung Mo, and U.S. Ambassador John J. Muccio. Said MacArthur to the Prime Minister: "You take care of the President. We are going to take care of your country...
Snapped Defense Minister Shin: "We kept to the parallel like the Great Wall of China. But what happened-they violated it. Now God is with us. Why stop at the 38th parallel...