Word: bunker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there be no mistake about this: such a system founded on godlessness is something of a magnetic field . . . But such a system ever remains merely another hiding place for man, like a giant, massive concrete bunker." And the voice of God penetrates even the bunker. "That is why all attempts in the East and in the West to achieve salvation and wholeness under . . . godlessness are doomed to impotence...
...William Jenner-for having associated with "questionable" characters, praised by Oklahoma's Mike Monroney as an "outstanding advocate of democracy." Ike's four other nominees-California's Bill Knowland, Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., and Red Cross President Ellsworth Bunker were approved unanimously...
...period, here offers a fictional study of a German family falling apart after a half-decade or more of peace and growing prosperity. The brawling, sprawling, 15-member clan that occupies the first two floors of a Ruhr Valley tenement house is known to its neighbors only as "the bunker family." This is a snide reference to the family's having lived 4½ years in a bunker (bomb shelter) under the Cologne Cathedral...
...lure of easy money, has turned Hank into a small-time mobster. He wields a mean cosh in a gang that includes sister Katie and two of his brothers. On one night's prowl he kills an old caretaker. From that moment on, the life of the bunker family disintegrates with melodramatic velocity...
...Bunker also accused Truman of lying at the Wake Island Conference. "I was there," he said, "and I heard him tell everyone that he and General MacArthur agreed on the defense of Formosa. Two days later he told a news conference that he totally disagreed with MacArthur on the question of that island. What else is this...