Word: yoo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ewha to be a hotbed of resistance. In March 1919, after Korea abortively declared its independence, the girls of Ewha were out in the street shouting "Mansei!" ("Ten thousand years for Korea!") with the best of them. One even became something of a legend. She was 15-year-old Yoo Kwan Soon, who saw her parents murdered and was herself imprisoned for the crime of sewing small Korean flags...
...Eisenhower's ETO Deputy Commander in 1945. But he will probably rack up his chief fame in military annals as the iron-willed disciplinarian ("No mistake should ever go uncorrected") who nearly marched the brogans off a high-spirited battalion of trainees in 1941 after the lads had yoo-hooed at some barelegged girls on a Memphis golf course, where, unfortunately for the G.I.s, the general was also having a game...
Keeping the 2,yoo-seat hall in running order in season is a seven-day-a-week job for Totten. It calls for the administration of a 130-man staff, and for patience in dealing with artists who sometimes think they know more about his job than Totten does. And it calls for a kind of benevolent chicanery: on one occasion, a touring orchestra wired that it expected to rehearse the next day-at the time already scheduled for another rehearsal. Totten thought hard, arranged for the vans with the incoming instruments to break down just long enough...