Word: smirch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recalling one of the most controversial episodes in one of the world's most controversial battles, TIME meant no smirch. Authorities who supported TIME'S position include Longstreet's own biographers, Eckenrode & Conrad, Lee's biographer, Douglas Southall Freeman, the Dictionary of American Biography. Whether the criticism of Longstreet is just or not, Longstreet at Gettysburg has been for years a classic U.S. symbol of the costliness of delay...