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Word: teakwood (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chin, the Ping, the Si and the Mun, it had gone with wandering merchants thumbing barge rides. On the lips of mendicants with shaven heads and shaven eyebrows it had traveled through cobra-ridden jungles where tigers lurked and elephants lurched, and on into the cool, airy teakwood forests of the uplands. In ancient, serpent-topped temples, yellow-robed monks prepared a welcome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SIAM: Garden of Smiles | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

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