Word: bunker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...solidly respectable, 85-year-old farmer named Robert E. Bunker died last week at his home on the outskirts of Mount Airy, a rural community in North Carolina. He was the last of twelve children of Eng, half of the once-famed pair of Siamese twins displayed throughout the nation by Showman P. T. Barnum in the early 19th Century...
Nothing in the crowd of sturdy, suntanned relatives who saw Farmer Bunker to his grave could remind anyone of the medical quirk-luridly advertised by Barnum-that made freaks of their ancestors...
...command of the Eighth Army, MacArthur announced the appointment of Lieut. General Matthew Bunker Ridgway, U.S. pioneer of the airborne assault in World War II, who was in Washington last week as deputy to Army Chief of Staff J. Lawton Collins. Born at Fort Monroe, Va. 55 years ago, Ridgway planned the first large-scale U.S. parachute-troop operation in Sicily (1943). Through no fault of his, that one was a snafu, but he kept on tirelessly pushing the airborne doctrine, jumped with his troops (the 82nd Airborne Division) in Normandy, later became commander of an airborne corps...
Across the road from his office was Kim's private air-raid bunker, 70 to 100 feet underground and connected by a tunnel with the residence of his Russian advisers. In the bunker Kim had complete living quarters, a music room with an organ and a one-chair barber shop...
...marines proved they had plenty of guts. They held their ground until, in November, the resurgent Navy under "Bull" Halsey finally drove the Jap warships out of the area and put 2nd Marine Division and Army reinforcements ashore. Among Americans, Guadalcanal has become a household word, as familiar as Bunker Hill and Gettysburg...