Word: chamcha
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though the late King's bodily remains thus passed into smoke and ashes, no devout Cambodian believed that that was the end of Préa Bat Samdach Préa Sisowath Monivong Chamcha-Vrapong Harireach Barmintor Phouvanay Krayveofa Sulalay Préa Chan Crung Campuchéa Tippedey...
...Sisowath, to fight in France. Such loyalty did not prevent the mediating Japanese, in March, from breaking off a succulent chunk of his sun-broiled satrapy, handing it to hostile Thailand. Last week, at his capital Pnom-Penh, weary Préa Bat Samdach Préa Sisowath Monivong Chamcha-Vrapong Harireach Barmintor Phou-vanay Krayveofa Sulalay Préa Chan Crung Campuchea Tippedey died...
Since 1863 Cambodia has been a protectorate of France within the jurisdiction of French Indo-China. But France has let Cambodia remain a kingdom. The present King, whose name is Préa Bat Samdach Préa Sisowath Monivong Chamcha-Vra-pong Harireach Barmintor Phouvanay Krayveofa Sulalay Préa Chan Crung Campuchéa Tippedey (Sisowath Monivong to his friends), is somewhat like the Little King of O. Soglow's cartoons: he likes to be everywhere at once, to do everything himself...
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