Word: kluck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first great field battle of World War I took place at Mons in Belgium, where a victorious German army, driving hard after the outgeneraled and defeated Allies, came up with Britain's "contemptible little" professional army (80,000 men). General von Kluck threw 250,000 men against-them. But the Old Contemptibles stood their ground until their ranks were shot through & through...
Sirs: I believe your criticism of Frank Kluck-hohn's close-up of Major Richard Ira Bong (TiME, May 1) was unjustified. If the facts given were correct, and you did not seem to question them, I see no reason why a reporter should refer to Bong in "warm, sympathetic" tones...