Word: bunker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loose connection probably caused the short circuit which ignited clothing and papers on the top of a chest of drawers in the room of Gerald E. Bunker '59 and Graham E. Fuller...
...planned the army the Congress had authorized, while in another the high command--at least until Washington arrived--settled its immediate strategy. Captain Benedict Arnold appeared with a Connecticut company to broach a plan for taking Ticonderoga. General Artemas Ward made the house his headquarters, planning the defense of Bunker Hill during his stay, and General Warren, who conducted it, slept there on the eve of battle...
...burlap bag full of cantaloupes; the next she is sleazing through the dusk in black lace with the toothsome glitter of a backstreet-walker in Naples. And she battles her way into a girdle of yesteryear with all the fury and desperation of the Royal Welch Fusiliers at Bunker Hill, somehow imparting to her defeat some of the sorrowful majesty of a historical debacle...
...stories are better known or more poorly documented than that of the death of Adolf Hitler. Popular imagination the world over has been quick to seize on the macabre details of those last days in the bunker in flaming Berlin, where a mad genius cringed in the rain of Allied bombs and felt the walls of his terrible world closing in upon him. The suicide of his scheming henchman Goebbels, the defection of those who fattened on the blood he had spilled, the last-minute marriage with his blowzy mistress Eva Braun, the suicide pact they made together...
...other ex-prisoner was Hitler's valet, Heinz Linge, who was held for interrogation for three years in Moscow before being sent to a P.W. camp. The Führer and Eva, said Linge. "were alone in one of the bunker rooms. Eva Braun took poison. Hitler shot himself. I carried his body out of the bunker and then helped pour the gasoline over it." He watched for five minutes while flames devoured the leader of the master race. If Linge spoke the truth, this was at last the incontrovertible eyewitness testimony needed to declare Adolf Hitler legally dead...