Word: bunkered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...building, which resembles a castle, has drawn heavy fire from the Council, with one councillor describing it as "a war-time concrete bunker." Although the proposed commission would have control over new construction on Appian Way, it would probably not try to bar the castle, which has already been approved by the Cambridge planning board...
...Monday's City Council meeting, several Councilmen spoke out against the building. "It looks like a wartime concrete bunker seven stories high," commented Daniel J. Hayes. Other members joined him in protesting that the construction would ruin the historic flavor of the Brattle Street-Appian Way area...
...looks like a wartime concrete bunker seven stories high," said Councilman Daniel J. Hayes, who offered a resolution requesting Harvard officials to present their plans for the castle at a future council session. The resolution passed by a 6-2 vote...
...obtaining the settlement, Bunker made three trips to Saudi Arabia and held "extensive talks" with President Gamal Abdel Nasser in Cairo. Giving force to Bunker's arguments was the basic policy decision of the Kennedy Administration to back the pro-Nasser Yemeni republicans against the feudal royalist tribes. This decision was undoubtedly conveyed, tactfully, to Saudi Arabia's Premier Prince Feisal by Bunker. Unquestionably, Nasser was also told that there is a limit to his expansionist drive in the Middle East, and that the U.S. unalterably opposes his stirring up trouble in other Arab countries. Uppermost in Washington...
Double Trouble. The return home of even a token contingent of Egyptians was achieved by the quiet diplomacy of veteran U.S. Diplomat Ellsworth Bunker, 68, who last year put together the Dutch-Indonesian settlement that handed West Irian to Indonesia's Sukarno. Last week the United Nations announced that the parties embroiled in the Yemen civil war had accepted Bunker's proposal for a U.N. observer team with a double job. It will make sure that Saudi Arabia ends its support of the royalist tribesmen fighting to restore Imam Mohammed el Badr to the throne he lost seven...