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Word: khorasan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contentious missionary, he got into trouble throughout the Middle East. Kurdish tribesmen loaded him with chains and bastinadoed him; in Khorasan he was flogged, in Afghanistan nearly burned alive. Wolff was also shipwrecked, poisoned, stung half to death by wasps, and three times stripped naked in the desert and left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Adventure in the East | 4/6/1959 | See Source »

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