Word: taegu
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...Central Election Committee because of "insufficient popular support," i.e., because he could not get 100 signers to support a registration petition for him. Many of his original petition signers had been persuaded by police to withdraw their names. ¶ Chough Pyung Ok's campaign manager was jailed in Taegu on a charge that Chough had paid his 100 registration-petition signers 600 hwan ($3.33) each for their signatures...
...disciplined troops who rushed the stage. She also discomfited MSAdministrator Harold Stassen, who made the mistake of dropping in on one U.S. division the same day Marilyn was distracting it. Muttered he: "I did not have this much competition when I ran for the presidential nomination." At Taegu Air Force Base, her last wolf-whistle stop, Marilyn was "very pleased" to find her famed nude calendar photograph pinned up in the mess hall. "I wish I could have seen more of the boys," she purred. Returning to Japan, she was briefly bussed by her groom, ex-New York Yankee Outfielder...
...Unfair." From Taejon to Taegu and the farmlands beyond, Koreans turned out to cheer the "AntiCommunist Patriotic Youth" as their trains rumbled south through the night. But the P.W.s were somewhat disillusioned by their welcome at South Korean Army reception depots. Army officers told them they could join up (with no advance pay, no bonus, no leave), or they could return to civilian status and-if they were still in their 20s the draft. One young P.W. lieutenant was bitter. "I want to go to school," he said. "I've been in the Army eight years, almost four...
...Toth, a young (21) steelworker. When they found him at work, the APs handcuffed him, took him to the Greater Pittsburgh Airport, where he was ordered aboard a military plane. Five days later, Toth, who had gotten his honorable discharge five months earlier, was in a guardhouse in Taegu, Korea, awaiting trial by court-martial on a charge of murder...
Order to Shoot. The case began at an Air Force bomb dump in Taegu in September 1952. One night. Toth was on duty as sergeant of the guard. As he told the story later: "A gook who was drunk came into the area. The guard was on duty with a dog, and he hollered twice to the gook to halt, and when the gook didn't stop, he tried to get the dog to stop him, [but] the dog wouldn't attack. Then the guard fired two shots. These shots woke me, and I went to the area...