Sounds Like a Boy Band
The Korean War
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FINISH THE CLASSIC AMERICAN LYRIC
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As Nick Lachey surely knows, it's sorta kinda around the normal body temperature

98 degrees

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This capital of South Korea changed hands 4 times during the course of the war

Seoul

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Sounds gruesome, but it's actually a person who recruits candidates for top-level jobs

Headhunter

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2-word term meaning to make an unresponsive program set you free; on a Mac it's command-option-escape

Force quit

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"Home, home on the range, where" these play

Deer and the antelope

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The abbreviation for filming people filming people, or a K-pop band with Jin & Suga

BTS

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With subzero weather at the Battle of Chosin Reservoir, vets suffered the long-term effects of this cold injury, including gangrene

frost bite

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A good manager knows how to do this 8-letter word, transfer responsibility for specific tasks to their employees

Delegate

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Meaning overhyped, this word suggests a grilled meat sandwich without anything inside it

Nothing burger

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"O beautiful for spacious skies..."

For amber waves of grain

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It's an idiom for working well together, like Chris Kirkpatrick on a tandem bicycle with Justin Timberlake

In Sync

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In 2018 South Korea's Moon Jae-in & this North Korean leader pledged to formally end the war but it hasn't happened... yet

Kim Jong Un

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Referring to writers & others who are self-employed & work job to job, it was first used of mercenary knights

Freelance

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It's a less-than-chiseled paternal physique

Dad bod

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"You are my sunshine, my only sunshine, you make me happy when..."

When skies are grey

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Donnie Wahlberg & Joey McIntyre are these children who just came to the neighborhood & now we gotta show them the ropes

New Kids on the Block

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Less than a year after he was chosen supreme commander of U.S.-led forces, he was relieved of all duties by President Truman

MacArthur

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It's the controversial cost-saving practice of subcontracting services once done in-house to a third party

Out sourcing

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Double-talk way of saying something or someone is insane or beyond understanding

Cray cray

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"Doe, a deer, a female deer; ray, a drop of golden sun; me..."

A name, I call myself

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A bar mitzvah marks this transition from childhood to adulthood; I wonder if Nathan Morris & Shawn Stockman had one

Boys to Men

500

In September 1950, United States troops made a surprise landing at this strategic port, changing the course of the war

Inchon

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It's the 2-word Latin phrase meaning a particular way of doing something, work-wise or criminally related

Modus operandi

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A 2018 conference on computational linguistics included 4 papers on detection of this untrue stuff you read & hear

Fake news

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"Oh my darling, oh my darling, oh my darling Clementine..."

You are lost and gone forever, oh my darling, Clementine.