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Word: kaechon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...likes to twit British war correspondents with such remarks as, "Yes, I remember your General Townshend well. We took him prisoner at Kut-el-Amara [in 1916]." Last week Yazici's smart, tightly disciplined Turks were thrown in to hold the line the R.O.K.s abandoned east of Kaechon. Estimated Turkish casualties at week's end: 500. A U.S. doctor said it seemed that a Turk waited until he had at least three wounds before he reported to the medics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Withdraw? | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

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