Word: tak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...CATC (Central Air Transport Corp.) to shift all operations from Hong Kong to Formosa, where Chiang Kai-shek's forces could exert closer control. But at dawn one day last week, eleven planeloads of pilots and crewmen chose instead to slip off from Hong Kong's Kai Tak airfield and head for Red China. Seventy more Nationalist-owned planes remained grounded at Hong Kong. Pro-Communist personnel guarded them against seizure by Nationalist agents, who were forced to seek help in unsympathetic British colonial courts. Hong Kong's Governor Sir Alexander Grantham flatly announced that British recognition...
...room houses. White-coated Koreans gathered in little groups on street corners or hurried home to join curious family circles, and there was an unaccustomed murmur in the air. All through the city rustled the same earnest talk and in all the talk there was the one phrase "sin tak"-trusteeship...
...second time since their arrival in Korea, Americans and Russians were meeting to discuss the establishment of a free Korean government-after the period of sin tak was over. Sin tak had a particularly ugly sound to Korean ears. Meaning both trusteeship and guardianship, it was used by the Japanese when they first muscled into Korea under cover of a "Treaty of Guardianship" after the Russo-Japanese...
Whatever their politics, a majority of Koreans are dead set against a continuing sin tak. Most outspoken foes are old, Princetonian (Ph.D. 1910) Syngman Rhee and his big rightist coalition. Said Rhee last week: "More good can come to Korea if this present conference breaks than if it comes to an agreement. If I were General Hodge . . . I would not waste time talking with the Russians...
...over the country, loudspeaker vans boomed out a monotonous tattoo: "Tak, tak, tak!" (Yes, yes, yes!) It was Communism's voice urging the Polish people to vote yes on all three questions of the national referendum and thus to uphold Poland's Communist-dominated regime...