Word: uighurs
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...baffling ease with which Toynbee glides over the millenniums, from the Austro-Hungarian monarchy to the U.S. Civil War to Carthage's "wooden curtain" of ships to Persian headgear to the Nestorian Uighur Turkish secretaries of the Mongols to the Tokugawa regime in Japan to the Argonauts to Kon-Tiki to the Prankish Lex Salica to U.S. television, gives the reader a heady sense of omniscience and omnipresence. Toynbee is at his most fascinating and most expert as a technician of civilization. When he ex plains a civilization's functioning, he evokes the kind of satisfaction that goes...
...rate - was one of the tougher ones. It was as if our Rome correspondent had heard vaguely about a troubled situation, not within biking distance of Rome but 2,000 miles away, and, after getting there, found that he not only had to wrestle with a language (Uighur) in which even the U.S. State Department has no expert but also had to gather correct information about an overall situation with which neither he nor almost anyone else was familiar...