Word: bunker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...soldiers," the President said to the cadets, "you will live by the traditions of the service, built in the halls and on the campus of this greatest of all academies of its kind, and on many battlefields, from Bunker Hill to the Korean mountains." The President counseled the cadets to be "stout of faith in yourselves, your alma mater and your God." So saying, the President stepped to the front of the dais and began to pass out the diplomas, characteristically reserving his most scrutinizing appraisal and his warmest words of encouragement for Cadet John Paul Doyle Jr., "The Goat...
...dusk deepened on a Korean hill one evening in 1952, PETER BRAESTRUP, 2nd lieutenant, U.S.M.C.R., by way of Parris Island and Quantico out of Yale ('51), ducked into a bunker for a quick mug of coffee. During 5½ months in Korea, Lieut. Braestrup had moved mostly on the edges of war. All at once, in the bunker, he heard the chatter of gunfire and the shouts of his 30 marines on the hill. Chinese Reds were attacking in company strength. He ran out, shouting: "Pour it on, marines...
...were fighting with efficiency and fervor. During the night the Nationalists attacked and knocked out half a dozen Binh Xuyen strongpoints, one after the other. Paratroopers stormed the big Binh Xuyen garrison at Petrusky High School in a wild, shouting charge. Among the prisoners taken in one Binh Xuyen bunker: a couple of French noncoms, who claimed they had been trapped there "unintentionally" when the shooting began...
...safety checks along the way, fuses and other devices that can take back Dr. Graves' decision up to half a second before the zero second, but if all goes well, the current at last rams into the device, and a mushroom cloud stands miles high over the concrete bunker where Dr. Graves gave the word...
...buildings in East Berlin best reflect how similar this totalitarianism is to that just past. The speaking new Russian embassy stands just a few blocks from where Hitler's suicide bunker still lies sprawled on its side. On e of my friends, who had been on a labor crew which built the embassy and had later field to the west, confided that it, too had a bunker in the basement, with concrete walls three feet thick. The resemblance between Stalin Allee's enormous, oppressive expanse of street and structure and Hitler's own Unter den Linden is more than coincidental...