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...North Korean capital, Pyongyang. The 5th Regiment of the U.S. 1st Cavalry Division drove out of the mountains 16 miles south of Pyongyang. The R.O.K. 1st Division punched in from a point eight miles southeast of the city. The R.O.K. troops were commanded by Brigadier General Paik Sun Yup, a man with a grim ambition to be the first into Pyongyang. Five years ago the city's Communist rulers had sawed off the head of General Paik's baby...
Learning the Hard Way. Smiling, round-faced Colonel Paik Sun Yup, the division commander, reached out his hand and gave me a gold-toothed "How do you do?" in English. At 30, Colonel Paik is rated the best field commander of the Korean army. His younger brother, 27-year-old Paik In Yup, commander of the iyth Regiment, was wounded in fighting farther north after successfully leading his regiment out of the precarious pocket. The two Paik boys' are a shining contrast to the inefficient, sluggish South Korean commanders who bungled the early days of fighting in the west...
...July 27. Yup [sister Elinor Agnes] and Bob both fell out of bed . . . on the tops of their heads...
...hundred miles an hour. Your hand looks frosted with splinters of glass sticking out. The co-pilot's all right, just cut. The bombardier crawls back. One side of his face is covered with blood but he's okay. You call back over interphone-"Everybody all right ?" "Yup, all okay." The ship's been hit a number of times but it's flying and you're on your way back. You light a cigaret. The raid's over...
...honest lexicon." U. S. eyes may note examples from Jack London. George Ade, O. Henry, H. L. Mencken, Zane Grey-even so unliterary an exemplar as the late great Baseballer Christy Mathewson ("yellow streak"). In the long list from "aasvogel" to "zooming" some U. S. examples: "Speak-easy" (1889): "Yup. U.S. Variant of yep, yes" (1906); "Razz [short for Razzberry]. Disapproval expressed by hissing or booing directed against an actor or other person" (1926); "Wow. A 'great success'" (1927); "Zipper" (1925); "Vamp...