Word: yup
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world with the Army Finance Corporation and to follow the B.C. football team to the Sugar Bowl game. "Cambridge," he claims, "is a fine town. People mind their own business, yet they have pretty good I.Q's: when I talk to someone here, I get more than a 'yup' or a 'nope' out of him. And half of the dishwashers are in town to study characters for their novels...
...Lindsey struggled vainly to get his set back. No sooner was the tuner reported cured than the repairman said he needed a new picture tube-$60 more. That took another four weeks. Eventually the set came back-only to break down soon after. "The tuner again?" groaned Lindsey. "Yup," said the repairman, and bundled it off for another month. The final bill, including "delivery": $162.40. Says Lindsey, with the dazed air of a man who had unwittingly picked up a live wire: "They really gimme the works. And the worst of it is my set don't work...
...ranch. Cowboy Douglas keeps shaking his head, he's that amazed. As soon as they get there, he wants to know, "Whin we gonna see it?" "After lunch," growls Jay C. Flippen, the foreman. After lunch, Douglas busts right out, "Kin we see it naow?" "Yup," says the foreman. The two men brace themselves, walk shoulder to shoulder to the front door of the main ranch house, open it, walk through the bedroom, open the door beyond. Timidly Cowboy Douglas peeks in. His eyes bulge. His jaw drops...
...place was different, the names unfamiliar, but the ritual was the same. Instead of Czechoslovakia or Poland, it was North Korea; instead of Slansky or Gomulka, it was Lee Sung Yup. Last week the voice of Radio Moscow, which has tolled doom for hundreds of topdog Communists, called the roll of 12 more-North Koreans who "confessed" that they had spied and plotted on behalf of the U.S. and South Korea to overthrow Premier Kim II Sung and install a "new capitalistic government" in pitted, desolate North Korea...
Shortly before, the plotters were the respected "champions of the masses." Lee Sung Yup, now accused as ringleader, was North Korea's Justice Minister and mayor of Seoul during the 1950 Communist occupation. Pae Choi, an officer trained in the Soviet army, supervised the Reds' "guerrilla guidance bureau," and helped plan the Koje prisoners' riots. Cho Yun Nyong was Pyongyang's deputy Propaganda Minister. Im Hwa directed the Korea-Soviet Cultural Society. Last week, in North Korea's first major purge trials, these and six others drew the death penalty. Two other "plotters...