Word: kaaskoppen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...More Kaaskoppen. The three who worked to become one started with some advantages. Resentments between them largely disappeared before the common wartime enemy. Belgians now seldom speak of the Dutch as rich, unimaginative "Kaaskoppen" (cheese-heads); Dutch now less often deprecate "the French touch" of levity and gaiety in Belgian characters. The Germans gave the two countries a lesson in unity by quickly breaking the Dutch Ijssel and Grebbe Lines and the Belgian "Little Maginot" Line (demonstrating the folly of independent, uncoordinated defenses...
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