Word: shoulder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...statesman of the week was a trench-coated soldier with a hand grenade taped to his shoulder harness. Almost from the moment the truce talks started in "neutral" Kaesong, General Matt Ridgway had chafed under a sense of an intolerable situation. The choice was to accept a long-drawn-out negotiation and daily humiliation, or to force a showdown...
...clock the mob was back and pressing against police lines, which blocked off the area around the apartment house for a full block. Mostly, they were young fellows in T-shirts and dungarees, but there were also housewives in cotton dresses, a father holding his child on his shoulder to give him a better view. The crowd was good-natured, as if going to a game, and the cops acted like ushers politely handling the overflow at a football stadium. But as darkness fell, some in the crowd got false courage from the night. They tossed firecrackers over police lines...
Miss Paik of Pyongyang. On the porch of a Korean house nearby were about 20 Communists, half of them North Koreans with shoulder boards and fancy uniforms, half, Chinese with unstarched, unmarked yellow-green uniforms. Some wore badges with "Reception Personnel" inscribed in English and in Chinese or Korean characters , others appeared to be the Chinese press...
...kind. The atmosphere was courteous but unbending and stiff; the Communist delegation was composed of a North Korean colonel named Chang Chun San and two lieutenant colonels, one North Korean, one Chinese (plus two interpreters). Chang, a trim man in a green, Russian-style uniform with red shoulder boards, did all the talking for his side...
While His Majesty was on the operating table, he also had another matter taken care of: his physicians did a quick plastic surgery job on the scar which had marred his right shoulder ever since 1949, when he was shot by a nationalist fanatic who thought the Shah was too friendly with foreigners...