Word: bunkered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Meese friend who wants to retire in time to help Reagan campaign for reelection. The Justice Department was prosecuting Republican Congressman George Hansen of Idaho for failing to include loans to his wife on the disclosure forms required of members of Congress. The Hansen loans from Texas Billionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt were larger than Meese's (the largest was $62,000), and Hansen refuses to file amended forms. Meese has readily done so, but that might not be enough to save him. With Hansen on trial last week, Smith would have been criticized if he had not ordered...
...lawyer," says a woman from East Boston. "You've got to wait for an appointment and by the time you get one it's probably too late. They just don't have the time" Staff lawyers, on the other hand, feel as if they are working in a "sustained bunker atmosphere." For while the demand for their services increases daily, so does the general feeling of uncertainty concerning the program's future. As Wagan says, "The morale problems come from the sense that there is less security in Legal Services...
...changing. One American city that seems to manage technological and economic change without sacrificing its essential character is Boston. Its residents have kept their new downtown, with its forthright and boldly sculptural city hall, the Faneuil Hall festival market and converted granite warehouses along the waterfront, as Bostonian as Bunker Hill. Now they are managing to control drastic changes in the famed Back Bay neighborhood. The latest and most dramatic case in point is Copley Place, a $500 million shopping, office and hotel complex that opens this week. The development might have been another alien invader of the city, like...
...been working on his play "Seaview" for the past couple of years. This three-act work includes a trio of separate stories about personal relationships that occur at a seashore. The first act takes place at a cottage house in 1925 in Marshfield, the second at a bunker overlooking the invasion of Normandy in 1944, and the third at North Carolina's Nag's Head Beach in 1979. "The play follows the dramatic evolution of the same character of the same character type." Farrell explains, adding that the same actor will play the protagonist in each...
...next day the Marine commander, Brigadier General Jim Joy, described the engagement: "We fought a pretty good scrap for three hours. We acquitted ourselves well. I was extremely proud of this organization." Then he explained how it had happened that ten Marines were clustered in a rooftop bunker that "probably should not have had more than four...