syngman rhee

Rhee

[ree]
noun
Syng·man [sing-muhn] , 1875–1965, president of South Korea 1948–60.
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Rhee (riː) [Click for IPA pronunciation guide]
 
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Syngman (ˈsɪŋmən). 1875--1965, Korean statesman, leader of the campaign for independence from Japan; first president of South Korea (1948--60). Popular unrest forced his resignation

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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