Word: bunker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mountain people from Hoa Binh country) and tough Vietnamese soldiers, wading neck-deep through rice paddies, cleaned up the river villages. Wherever organized opposition was encountered, spotter planes called in B-26s and Hellcats, directing their fire bombs. Meanwhile, Foreign Legion paratroopers, back in harness after dreary months of bunker building, chuted down into the hills south of Choben...
Matt's New Role. The man whose eyes were fixed most intently on Kaesong was General Matthew Bunker Ridgway. Rarely had a military commander found himself in the kind of situation that Ridgway was in this week. It was Matt Ridgway, successor to the late General "Johnnie" Walker, who had rallied the Eighth Army against the overwhelming Chinese onslaught last year, and turned his troops north again. To Ridgway, as to any soldier, the best way to finish the job in Korea could only be to defeat the enemy. Ridgway knew that, with more ground strength in Korea...
...five other German soldiers had been looting the store, when German demolition bombs destroyed its entrance and entombed them. Two of the trapped men committed suicide; another two died. The two remaining buried their comrades in piles of flour, lived on the vast stores of food in the bunker, washed in schnapps to conserve the small supply of water which seeped through cracks in the concrete walls. When Polish workers cleared the rubble from the shelter's entrance, they crawled...
...Matthew Bunker Ridgway...
...fairways, he shot six birdies, proved to be a golfer who is willing to take big chances for big money (first prize: $3,000). On the 509-yd. sixth hole his woods put him well over the green with his second shot. From the downslope back of a bunker, instead of playing safe for par, De Vicenzo shot boldly for the pin, missed it by 18 inches, but sank the short putt for his birdie. Grinned Roberto: "Excuse my English. My best shot was at this sixth today. I never play one better...