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Word: bonchaung (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...There was tall Major Bernard Ferguson, who left a lieutenant colonelcy on Field Marshal Sir Archibald Wavell's staff to lead a column of raiders. When he watched the Bonchaung railway bridge rise in a cloud of smoke and then settle into the gorge, the Major said softly: "Now I know that all my life I've wanted to blow up bridges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Lessons in Burma | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

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