Word: doo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Manchu Stew stand. This item was genuinely wretched--the recipe, as far as I could tell, was rice, soy sauce, grains of hamburger meat, and canned celery. A few blocks further downtown, a vendor was selling the same dish as a Wok-a-Doo Stew...
...bizarre outpouring reminded some observers of the more hysterical manifestations of the Cultural Revolution in China in the 1960s. In reality it was the latest national morality campaign promulgated by South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan, the former general turned strongman who has been zealous about rooting out graft and creating what he calls a "clean and honest climate" in the country. At the start of his purification drive last summer, Chun ordered the dismissal of 8,000 government employees for corruption and inefficiency. He also accused ten prominent citizens, including an ex-Prime Minister, a former top intelligence officer...
...just 15 months, President Chun Doo Hwan has consolidated his political grip on South Korea to a degree that nearly rivals that of his assassinated predecessor, Strongman Park Chung Hee. Two weeks ago, Chun's Democratic Justice Party swept to a healthy majority-151 seats -in the country's 276-member National Assembly. After formally taking office last August, the tough former general first tightened, then abolished martial law, launched an anticorruption campaign, and promulgated a new constitution. He spared the life of Dissident Leader Kim Dae Jung, an act that contributed to the success of Chun...
...More Signals to the World" [Feb. 16], you referred to President Chun Doo Hwan of South Korea as the first ruling foreign visitor to the Reagan Administration. The first was Jamaica's Prime Minister Edward Seaga...
...nothing but a bummer. [doo-wah, repeat chorus, fade out] --Descartes...