Word: mongol
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...Mongolian steppe lands. But in 1921 a Tsarist refugee, the fantastic "Bloody Baron" Michael von Ungern-Sternberg, made Outer Mongolia's metropolis, Urga (pop: 50,000), a base for operations against Russia. So the Bolsheviks liquidated him and moved into Urga, which they renamed Ulan Bator Khoto (Mongol for "City of the Red Hero...
...Enter a Mongol. On the fifth day of T. V.'s mission another visitor suddenly arrived from the East: Marshal Kharloin Choibalsan, Premier of the Mongolian People's Republic (Outer Mongolia), the vast, semiarid, herd-rich heartland of Central Asia. Like T. V., Marshal Choibalsan deplaned at the central airport. Like T. V., he was greeted by Molotov, a guard of honor and national music. Like T. V., he conferred with Stalin...
...Beside him sits a little man with dull, lustful eyes, abnormally high cheekbones, and an enormous shock of brown hair. Legally he is a Russian but the face is oriental. He is a Mongol of the easternmost end of Asia...
They repeated them when the Russian spirit had routed the last Mongol out of Muscovy twelve years before Columbus discovered the New World. They are probably repeating them today...
...Reluctantly Lehman Hall representatives realized that their Make-the-Food-Palatable policy was not only no longer adequate but actually conflicted with the Make-the-Students-Healthy program. The French dictionary was consulted once more, but no new words were found that could describe the food. Consomme, bouillon, puree, mongol, gumbo and other mumbo jumbo had been exhausted in trying to label the soup. And hamburger, whether Parisienne or Brooklynese, they had to admit was simply hamburger. With one final heroic effort, "Okra" was tacked onto the chicken gumbo in the last Sunday dinner, and than the dining halls were...