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Word: bosquet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Private Smith. Left squadron, keep back. Look to your dressing.' Until at last, as the ranks grew thinner and thinner, only one command was heard: 'Close in! Close in! Close in to the center! Close in! Close in!' " It was then that France's General Bosquet, watching in horror from the heights above, let fall his famed comment: "C'est magnifique, mats ce n'est pas la guerre" (It is magnificent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Story of a Blunder | 5/10/1954 | See Source »

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