Word: turks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kansu, China's most northwestern province, is situated the sizable city of Lanchow, for centuries China's gateway to Central Asia and beyond. Also through this city the Tartar, Turk, Hun, Mongol, Buddhist and Christian first entered the broad, populous Chinese basin below the Great Wall...
...knows no terror like that which an earthquake excites in him. After the first rude awakening to a confused sensation of being thrown by a horse or buffeted by an unbeliever, each frightened Turk thought something deadly was happening to himself alone. If he was not killed in his bed before he could command his muscles-as thousands were, by the piles of stones and dirt placed on the roofs of Turkish houses to insulate them for winter -he next wanted desperately to escape his shaking surroundings and get outdoors, thinking to find stability there. But if he gained...