Word: yalu
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then, leaving Kim with the assurance that if he ever wants anything from across the Yalu he need only whistle. Chou packed his trained doves and headed back to Peking...
...turned out, however, the 12 o'clock forces never even reached the 38th Parallel, much less the Yalu. The Masters, much as they wanted to eliminate the 1 to 4 p.m. hours, couldn't bring themselves to grant midnight permissions in return, not even for just the Dartmouth and Yale Saturdays. They unanimously voted down the House Committee Chairmens' proposal, and agreed merely to study the whole question of "simple, inexpensive, decent entertainment"-- particularly decent...
...Yalu. Each morning at 5:50, the public-address system blares out: "Good morning! Did you sleep well?" By 6 a.m. the cadets are outside for reveille formation. They line up by companies, each of which bears an animal's name, e.g., White Horse, Antelope, Panther. They count off, sing the national anthem, repeat the armed forces oath, ending with a fiery pledge to unify the country ("Let us plant the Republic of Korea colors on Paektu-san* and wash our swords in the Yalu River...
...James C. Gallagher of Brooklyn was charged in ten specifications with consorting with the Chinese Communists and murdering three of his fellow American prisoners of war in Korea. The witnesses were sharp-tongued and bitter; one testified that he had buried one of the three dead G.I.s beside the Yalu River, and he swore: "I made a promise to that kid . . . that if God permitted me to get back home alive . . . the man who murdered him would be brought to justice." The witness pointed across the courtroom to the trim and carefully uniformed Sergeant Gallagher: "That...
...Progressive. One by one on quiet Governors Island the witnesses unfolded a forlorn panorama of windswept P.W. camps by the Yalu, with their squalid mud huts and icy compounds, and their Chinese Communist officers-"Wong" and "Ragmop" and numberless others-who were constantly seeking to brainwash the G.I.s and undermine their allegiance. Aiding the Communists, the witnesses testified, were the G.I. "progressives," and one of their leaders was Sergeant Gallagher. Opposing them in the psychological struggle were G.I. "reactionaries," led by Sergeant Lloyd W. Pate of Augusta, Ga., also a Regular, who used both oral argument and force to keep...