Word: bunkered
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...second game, poor Charlie Leibrandt would have thrown a three-hitter to level the Series for the Royals if only Catcher Jim Sundberg or First Baseman Steve Balboni had overtaken a foul pop-up just beside the dugout. The spitting image of Archie Bunker's meathead son-in-law, Balboni wears a particular expression of impending disaster...
...front of some 50 journalists gathered in the new bunker-like Soviet compound atop Mount Alto in northwest Washington, Yurchenko vehemently insisted that he had never defected. Occasionally smirking, often scowling, always looking tough and in command, he freely alternated between Russian and English as he spun his tale of being "forcibly abducted" in Rome by American agents, drugged and flown to the U.S. against his will. For "three horrible months" he was held at a safe house in Fredericksburg, Va., Yurchenko claimed, taking apparent glee at revealing its exact location and details. Only on Nov. 2, when...
...issue, too, was why a fire ignited by the explosive was allowed to consume Move's building until it was too late to prevent it from spreading to adjacent homes. Firemen stood back in hopes that the blaze would destroy a bunker on the building's roof. Arson Expert Charles G. King, a former New York City supervising fire marshal, said the flames could easily have been extinguished up until 6:15 p.m. But by the time the hoses were turned on at 6:30 p.m., the fire had spread below the roof line and was out of control...
...they sent a general to Soviet headquarters to propose a surrender of Berlin in exchange for their own safety in leaving the city. During the long interval before the general returned with a Soviet rejection, Goebbels decided that he too must die. He ordered one of the bunker's doctors to inject sedatives into his six children, who had taken refuge with him in the bunker, then they were given poison. Goebbels' wife Magda bit on a cyanide pill, and Goebbels shot her in the back of the head. Then, just like Hitler, he raised his pistol...
...believed but had no concrete evidence to show that Heidemann had kept almost half the money. The journalist drew a prison term of 56 months for fraud. Kujau was sentenced to 54 months for fraud and forgery. Both were freed pending an appeal. The judge criticized Stern for the "bunker mentality" that encouraged editors to print their "scoop" without first establishing the diaries' authenticity...