Word: bunker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Like Bunker Hill & Gettysburg. When they sailed from Norfolk, Va. the marines had never heard of Guadalcanal. Major General Alexander Archer Vandegrift, who had by then taken over the division, had been given almost no time for practice, planning and staging. On Aug. 7, 1942, the marines went ashore on Guadal, without meeting resistance. The only first-day casualty was a leatherneck who cut himself trying to open a coconut...
...others practiced too, and Locke's opening 69 was one stroke off the pace. On the second round, he seemed to slip a cog on the par-three fifth hole. His tee shot slid into the rough, his attempt to get out of trouble landed him in a bunker. His third shot failed to clear, and he had to take a fat six strokes on the little hole...
WALTER S. BUNKER Cincinnati, Ohio...
...Including Reader Bunker, 18. Composer Dallapiccola adapted his libretto from two works: The Torture of Hope, and some of the more sinister legends of 14th Century German prankster Till Eulenspiegel...
...Most famed were the Chinese brothers Chang and Eng. Because they were born (1811) in Siam, P. T. Barnum billed them as "The Siamese Twins," and the name has stuck to all their kind. Chang and Eng retired on their circus earnings to North Carolina, took the name of Bunker, married sisters (not twins), had many children, and died...