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Word: oxcarts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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Usage:

...positions had been left unmanned, and most of the Red soldiers who had been assigned to defend Pyongyang quickly threw up their hands. On the roads running north from Pyongyang, U.N. pilots spotted some 20,000 North Korean troops, some fleeing afoot, some by truck or by oxcart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF KOREA: Damn Good Job | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

...keep up the march were shot or bayoneted. When a man began to stumble we always carried him along as far as we could but that usually wasn't far enough. I was put in with a group of 47 sick men and allowed to ride in an oxcart. Twenty of these 47 guys died before we got to Pyongyang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death Train | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

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