Word: bunkered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...baroque splendor of his 18th century offices, Kurt Waldheim entertains few visitors. The Austrian President spends his days huddling with aides -- dubbed the "bunker boys" by sharp-tongued colleagues -- or performing ceremonial functions. He lingers at receptions, hoping that people will talk to him and, more important, be seen talking to him. Asked whether Waldheim would be welcome at the royal court in Stockholm, Swedish Foreign Minister Sten Andersson diplomatically replied, "The problem does not arise. His Majesty's program is booked solid for years, and your question is therefore purely academic...
Moments later Bush turned on Haig with the kind of ferocity that once gave Dole a reputation as a political hatchet man. "Let me turn it around -- what did you tell Nixon during Watergate?" the Vice President jabbed, referring to Haig's service in the White House bunker during the final days. The constricting format of the debate soon forced the Republican contenders to move on to far less electric issues. But the image lingered: Bush lashing...
...journalist, Breslin gave Queens a picturesque notoriety long before All in the Family folksied up the place for national consumption. He Got Hungry pushes the Archie Bunker mentality over the edge of realism into absurdity. Howard Beach mobsters like the Chief and Frankie Five Hundred seem to be overdone holdovers from Breslin's The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight (1969). The kinks in New York's welfare bureaucracy are authentic and darkly humorous, but the black characters are not developed beyond their jive. Father D'Arcy's mission is unfocused, his misadventures a blur, and his conversion from guardian...
State Sen. William Golden (D-Weymouth), one of the most vocal critics of Pilgrim, said, "It appears that the new management is having no better success than the old in safely operating the plant." Golden blasted Edison for what he called a "bunker mentality" in delaying until yesterday the reporting of potential safety violations that occurred over the weekend...
...Goebbels' efforts to protect them. As the British bombed German cities, he had 20 clothbound notebooks placed in a bank vault. Later he had the entire inventory put on microfiche. In the final days of the Third Reich he arranged for several volumes to be brought to his underground bunker, determined even then to preserve his version of history...