All 12 Uses
Cambodia
in
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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- They were planning a march on Cambodia and invited him to join them.†
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- Cambodia had recently been through American bombardment, a civil war, a paroxysm of carnage by local Communists that reduced the small nation by a fifth, and finally occupation by neighboring Vietnam, which by then was a mere vassal of Russia.†
Chpt 6
- Cambodia was racked by famine, and people were dying for want of medical care.†
Chpt 6
- Wasn't Cambodia the same as Sabina's country?†
Chpt 6
- The march on Cambodia had been their idea, and here the Americans, supremely unabashed as usual, had not only taken over, but had taken over in English without a thought that a Dane or a Frenchman might not understand them.†
Chpt 6
- The actress spoke about suffering children, about the barbarity of Communist dictatorship, the human right to security, the current threat to the traditional values of civilized society, the inalienable freedom of the human individual, and President Carter, who was deeply sorrowed by the events in Cambodia.†
Chpt 6
- Just then the interpreter, at the head of the parade, raised a large megaphone to her lips and called out in Khmer to the other side: These people are doctors; they request permission to enter the territory of Cambodia and offer medical assistance; they have no political designs whatsoever and are guided solely by a concern for human life.†
Chpt 6
- Yes, said Franz to himself, the Grand March goes on, the world's indifference notwithstanding, but it is growing nervous and hectic: yesterday against the American occupation of Vietnam, today against the Vietnamese occupation of Cambodia;†
Chpt 6
- Here he was, standing only a few steps from the bridge joining Thailand to Cambodia, and he felt an overwhelming desire to run out onto it, scream bloodcurdling curses to the skies, and die in a great clatter of gunfire.†
Chpt 6
- He traveled to the borders of Cambodia only for Sabina.†
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- All at once, the Cambodia venture struck him as meaningless, laughable.†
Chpt 6
- What remains of the dying population of Cambodia?†
Chpt 6
Definitions:
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(1)
(Cambodia) a nation in southeastern Asia; known for the brutal Khmer Rouge regime of the 1970s in which some estimate more than one in ten Cambodians were killed
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)