Word: bunker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Henry A. Bunker '58 and Harold R. Andrews '58, members of the M.I.T. Rocket Club, were heating ammonium hydroxide and picric acid in an attempt to make rocket fuel. The mixture apparently reached its explosion point, 360 degrees Centigrade, before the students could halt...
...through France with Patton's Army. He was released after three days, spent a week with the French underground before rejoining the U.S. forces. Among his prized souvenirs is a butter knife with the initials A.H. on the handle, taken from the ruins of Hitler's Berlin bunker...
...first shot hooked into the rough and left him with a sandy lie. Instead of playing a cautious game, Sam took a custom-made 2½ wood from his bag and aimed a daring shot right at the pin. He flubbed it; the ball landed in a fairway bunker. Trying desperately for the green, he slashed an iron shot that landed on an overhanging lip above a sandtrap, rolled back toward the sand and hung precariously in long grass. On his fourth shot, with one foot in the trap and one out, Snead overshot the green and fell into another...
Story from the Hospital. About 15 hours later, the wounded were resting in Hanoi's military hospital, and three men were well enough to tell Dienbienphu's last story."It seemed as though thousands of shells were striking our hospital bunker," said Private Michel Champougny."One shell exploded right inside another bunker, and the wounded were buried alive. Outside we could hear the screaming of the Viet Minh and the answering shouts of the French. Everyone was fighting, hand to hand. But around 6 p.m. there was silence, and we knew the battle was over...
...reach of enemy artillery. But they wanted to install themselves in a basin without occupying the surrounding hills, and the terrain was neutralized from the first day of the battle. And our artillery proved so powerless to locate the enemy guns that the colonel responsible committed suicide in his bunker on March 14th, by blowing himself up with a hand grenade...