dickhead (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Jonathan Lighter]

Published early in 1965, _The Green Berets_ was written in 1964.

  HDAS has Bill's cite as well as one from 1962 in a derivative sense.

  JL

"Mullins, Bill AMRDEC" <Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL> wrote:
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OED has 1969 for "dick-head"

_The Green Berets_ by Robin Moore New York, Crown Publishers [1965]

" "Who is that little dickhead?" "That is my counterpart, the camp
commander,
Captain Nim." " p. 238 [Google Books, snippet view]
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