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Word: nomads (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...milk. Often we killed camels to get drinking water." Forty of the Thaji's party, including the youngest of his three wives, nine brothers, and two boys, aged one and five, were lost. One night while they slept in their tents at Urduk on the Tibetan frontier, the nomad refugees were attacked by Communists, who killed eight men and drove away 300 sheep, 13 camels and 25 horses. "But we killed ten Reds," said Thaji Kussa proudly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: To Follow the Faith | 10/22/1951 | See Source »

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