Word: bunkered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...building would make what I call a colossal traffic mess," Eliot said. But he expressed confidence that Sullivan would be defeated: "In our fight to prevent this desecration we have the support of friends from all parts of Massachusetts, New England, and the United States. "This battle, like Bunker Hill, is not a local matter," he asserted...
...friends to Cambridge, to add great sums to the tax base. Think, all this at the cost of a walled-in strip of grass, where cows cannot possibly graze without imperiling their lives, grass whose only value is that once a handful of troops gathered there to march to Bunker Hill. Nothing could be more in the public interest than John Briston Sullivan's proposal...
...grata to the Dulles-era State Department, will step out of seven years of political exile and go to Yugoslavia-if, as expected, Marshal Tito will accept him. Already packing his bags for India is Harvard Economist John Galbraith, author of The Affluent Society. He will replace Ellsworth Bunker, who, as an able diplomat and devoted Democrat, is in line for another top ambassadorship, most likely to Brazil...
...third capacity, private citizen Eliot emphasized that the idea of a commercial structure on a site where continental troops mustered before Bunker Hill was "just plain outrage." In 1769, he noted, when the Proprietors of Cambridge set aside the common land for the public, they stipulated that it should revert to original owners if ever used for other than civic purposes...
...RISE AND FALL OF THE THIRD REICH, by William L. Shirer. The most successful effort yet to get into one volume the grisly and disheartening history of Naziism, from the birth of its creator to his suicide in a Berlin bunker. In Hitler, argues Shirer with a wealth of supporting evidence, the German people got just what they wanted...