Word: bunker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which had a new president just three years ago, last week got another one. Out went Chester Charles Pearson, 45, the aircraft production man (formerly with Curtiss-Wright and Douglas) who was hired in 1949 to solve the debt-ridden company's problems. In came George Maverick Bunker, 44, an engineer with no aircraft experience but plenty of promotional know...
Ellsworth Bunker, 57, Manhattan businessman (board chairman, National Sugar Refining Co.) who went into the State Department only last year as Ambassador to Argentina, handled himself well enough in Peron's capital to be given a crack at a more important job: to take over Dunn's post in Italy...
...turn to go out on patrol and some jerk over there cuts down at me with a burp gun or whatever-why, then it's a hell of a big war for me that day. And the days I get to just lay around the bunker-with maybe only ten or 15 rounds incoming all day, and the Chinaman stays over on his own side of the valley-well, those days it's not much of a war at all, I guess." He thought for a moment, and added: "But even on those days...
SCAP headquarters, in Tokyo's Dai Ichi Building, is policed by members of General Matthew Bunker Ridgway's Honor Guard-strapping six-footers, starched and polished, who stand their appointed watches day & night at the entrance and in the gleaming marble corridors. In the dead of night last week, Honor Guard Corporal Linwood C. Smith, a Purple Heart veteran of nine months in Korea, took a ten-minute break, wandered into Ridgway's outer office. There he saw a box of Whitman's Sampler chocolates. Knowingly and willfully, Corporal Smith did then & there remove...
...Joes standing around George Company's C.P. bunker went on watching U.N. artillery shells burst against Communist bunkers on a mountainside 3,000 yards up the valley and said nothing for a while. Finally, a 23-year-old rifleman from Honolulu, whose black hair had grown streaked with grey since he came into the line last July, spat on a splintered railroad tie. "So what?" he asked. "I'm going to start holding my breath? I ain't counting on nothing except that old big R in rotation to get me outa here." The BAR (Browning automatic...