Word: bonging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Frank L. Kluckhohn is regarded by his colleagues as an energetic but sometimes foot-in-mouth reporter. Last week in the Southwest Pacific, Correspondent Kluckhohn gave them another example of his style: a close-up of the U.S. "Ace of Aces"-stocky, 23-year-old Major Richard Ira Bong (TIME, April 24). Correspondent Kluckhohn doubtless meant his story to be warm, sympathetic, Ernie Pyle-like. If so, he missed his target by a wide margin. Wrote...
...Asked . . how it felt to have shot down more planes officially than any other American-27-Major Bong replied he felt just the same as before except that he had a 'gripe' . . . 'you guys for one thing...
...Bong] likes to get into his Lightning and to fly. Every time he did he came in off the sea at ten feet or so, pulled his plane up a bit and went over our camp ... Each time there was a whoosh! as the palm trees bent at a hurricane angle and the breeze raised the tent...
...Last night in a poker session Major Bong arrived with his .32-caliber revolver, wordlessly laid it on the table, then added insult to injury by calmly beating some self-designated 'experts'. . . . 'Half the fun of a poker game is griping,' the ace commented, laying down a full house...
...while we thought we had another Lindbergh in Major Bong, because it apparently hurt him to talk. . . . This lad is naturally modest to the point almost of shyness while having deep confidence in his ability...