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Word: choosak (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Usage:

...students pummeled its roof and windows with their fists. Other vehicles in the motorcade were forced to a halt and the demonstrators - mainly in their teens - tried to open each car. One of those mobbed, despite his civil service uniform, was the Thai government's own Secretary-General Choosak Watanaronchai, who saved himself by shouting "I'm a Thai!" Other bands of students broke four windows in the city's most prominent Japanese department store (the Thai Daimaru) and threw a small plastique bomb at the Japanese Trade Center...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ASIA: Japan: Rich and Unloved | 1/21/1974 | See Source »

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