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Word: miangkwan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flitting and stabbing day and night, sometimes fighting as long as 36 hours without food or water, crawling on hands and knees up sheer mountains, the end-running Marauders met the Japanese in obscure clearings with names like Walawbum, Shaduzup, Inkangahtawng, Miangkwan. This was the primitive Burma where tribesmen had often never seen a white mana harshly foreboding land of thunderous rivers and almost impassable jungles, where leeches clung to a man and drained his blood while stinking rot filled his soggy boots, where it rained 160 inches a year and nearly every Marauder shook with malarial fever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Man Who Gave | 12/26/1955 | See Source »

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