Word: sung
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flight from Seoul to Los Angeles, (where, according to an Immigration and Naturalization Service spokesman, a second Statue of Liberty ought to be erected), took 13 1/2 hours, two movies, three meals and a snack. Yeon Hee Park, 33, and her two sons, Sung Joon, 8, and Yong Joon, 7, passed the hours pleasantly. No one became...
...Sung Joon's attention strayed from the TV to his father's key ring, a great metallic wreath. Why, he asked, so many keys? "Are there so many thieves in America?" In Seoul, they had lived without locks, and the father had carried only car keys. As Park explained that keys were necessary in this country, his wife drew a visitor aside. She said she was certain she would enjoy her new life, but for now it was something of a strain. They had had to sell their home and furnishings, coming here carrying only clothes. The worst part...
That kind of effort has enabled Young and other Korean-born merchants to take over much of New York City's greengrocery trade from Italians and European- born Jews, whose children were moving on to professions or more profitable occupations. "We revived a business that was dying," says Kim Sung Soo, executive director of the Korean Produce Association. Since the first shops opened in the 1960s, some 1,000 Korean-run outlets have sprouted around the city. They account for 85% of the independent fruit-and-vegetable stores, and have taken a 20% bite out of supermarket business. "They...
...singer's American secretary, Pamela Smith, and an American of Greek descent, Arthur Targotsidis, 18, of Brockton, Mass. Roussos burbled with good feelings as he told reporters that the gunmen were "so nice to me, I cannot tell you." In fact, said Roussos, he had sung for his captors at their request, and they had presented him with a cake on his 39th birthday, which had occurred on the second day of the hijacking...
...attack; in London. Plomley's formula was unvarying: he asked each of his 1,791 guests to select eight recordings, one book and one luxury for an indefinite stay on a desert island. Princess Margaret's picks included Rule Britannia; Guide Me, O Thou Great Redeemer; and Sixteen Tons sung by Tennessee Ernie Ford...