Word: kazak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Restelli served two years with the Army Engineers. Another high-flying rookie, the St. Louis Cardinals' hard-hitting third baseman, Eddie Kazak, was a paratrooper and combat infantryman; he was bayoneted by a Nazi soldier in hand-to-hand fighting near Brest, France ("I think I shot the Nazi, but maybe I missed," he says), and later had part of his right elbow blown off by a shell fragment. After discharge, with a plastic patch in his elbow, he changed his name from Tkaczuk to Kazak and began slugging his way up the minor-league ladder (Columbus, Ga.; Omaha...
...desert is mirage-haunted and the track through it is marked by carcasses and bleached bones of camels slaughtered by Kazak wanderers for the water in their stomachs. Tough Moslem soldiers with us shot down desert antelope and huang yang, or yellow sheep. One marksman quickly slashed his quarry's jugular and guzzled the hot blood in the belief that this conveyed to him huang yang's keen eyesight. We preferred to quench our thirst more prosaically with Sinkiang's wonderfully succulent melons, bought at oasis towns along...
...valley where the flag of China should fly, a green flag with a yellow crescent moon and a five-pointed star has flown for nearly three years. The region contains about a million people (total Sinkiang population: about 4,000,000), mostly Moslem Turki farmers and Kazak horsemen who live in felt yurts (tents) and ride with rifles strapped on their backs. They are controlled by leaders trained and schooled in Russia. Behind the leaders is a well-equipped army of more than 25,000 tough young men who wear Russian-style uniforms and call themselves the Sinkiang Democratic Army...
...give opposition," their "autonomous" republics were expunged by Moscow. Charged with treason, sabotage and collaboration, an estimated 400,000 men, women & children were driven from the land on which their ancestors had lived for untold generations, and ordered to trek eastward. Where? Nobody knew-probably to the vast Kazak steppes beyond the Caspian...
...remote Soviet-bordered Sinkiang, the Central Government made peace with rebellious Kazak tribesmen, granting them a wide measure of autonomy and thereby ending more than a decade of intermittent dispute...