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Word: komitadji (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Usage:

...Orient Express, a service which cuts shipping time for packages across the Balkans from weeks to hours, everything has been carried, from a coffin crammed with counterfeit banknotes to a notorious suede moneybag containing only a Moslem potentate knew what. Every threat of Balkan war, every komitadji bandit raid near the steel rails, every chronic Bulgarian earth tremor means costly problems to the trilingual Frenchmen in creased, drab uniforms who somehow always get the Orient Express through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Orient Express | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

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