Word: thousand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thousand, thousand, thousand men I alone, a single man, have killed...
...appointment seems strange behavior by an Administration that has been most careful to weed out of the government officials whose work might be hampered by disagreement with policy. Last week, two thousand Democrats were cut from the Civil Service, a prelude to dismissal for just this reason. There may merit in this practice, but if so, it should at least be consistent...
...limit may have been more realistic in 1948, when it was set, but prices and wages have zoomed so fast, especially after the Korcan War, that it is far out-of-date today. Many students could easily earn a thousand dollars a year if the tax laws gave them a chance. And with the nation short of laborers, it seems foolish to discourage them from full summer employment...
...roads that wind from Seoul to Munsan, to Uijongbu and farther east, in central and eastern Korea, many families like the Ahns were on the move last week. In a thousand hamlets and settlements, some within sound of artillery on the stalemated battlefront, the blue-grey ashes of prewar villages were being raked aside, raw pine uprights were being planted, and women & children were combing through the rice straw for thatching for new roofs. Of the 22 million people in South Korea, about a fourth are homeless. No matter how hard and hopefully they work they cannot soon replace their...
...breast. But on other occasions, particularly when he is tired, the aged President will droop. Whenever Madame Rhee thinks that a visitor has over stayed, she will interrupt with some such remark as "Poppa, do you haff coffee or tea this afternoon?" Hearing her voice, Rhee's thousand-wrinkled face will crease into a smile. In private the President calls Madame Rhee "Momma," and in recent months he has needed all her solicitude...