Word: yen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sung. The minds of most of their passengers had long been prepared by Soren, the Communist-financed society that controls 90% of Korean schools in Japan. The Koreans had had an undeniably miserable time in Japan. After years of work, most had less than 15,000 yen ($42) to their names. In an old U.S. Air Force barracks, they slept in heated rooms for the first time and delightedly gobbled a feast of horse mackerel and rice...
...news from Pall Mall, Tenn., home town of Sergeant Alvin York, one of World War I's top heroes, was a little brighter. Teetotaler York, 71, crippled by a stroke in 1954, reported that his health is improving, allowed that he has even felt a yen to go hunting again. Another good omen: he has not heard recently from federal revenooers about the $85,442 income tax they have asked for-a kingsize slice of the royalties York got from his movie biography, produced in 1941. "They claim I owe 'em so much," drawled the old soldier...
...sooner had he arrived this fall than he began to fit himself into the black-gowned atmosphere, pedaling a bicycle to appointments with his tutors (philosophy, politics, economics), developing a taste for sherry and ale, acquiring a tea service for the social amenities. Best of all, he had a yen to play rugby. After all, he had been good at games back in the U.S., and he stood a lean, big-boned 6 ft. 1½ in., 205 Ibs. The rugby prospect: Rhodes Scholar and Infantry Lieut. Pete Dawkins, 21, No. 10 man in his class at West Point...
...started his masterpiece, the opera Jenufa. He was close to 50 when he finished the work and past 60 before he found an audience that could appreciate it. In its only U.S. production-during the 1924-25 Metropolitan Opera season, three years before Janacek's death-Jenufa (pronounced Yen-uffa) was roundly panned. In recent years, European opera houses have been looking at Jenufa with fresh admiration, and last week Chicago's Lyric Opera followed suit, gave the work its first U.S. performance in 35 years...
...modern center for instruction in languages, has been completely reconstructed to give the modern language departments an opportunity to utilize the "oral-aural," "direct," method of teaching. Once a drafty museum of natural history, once the finest chemical laboratory in the United States, and once the headquarters of the Yen-Ching Institute Boylston has undergone another complete transmutation...