Word: bunkered
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Among Rodriguez’s favorite activities is driving to Revere Beach and speeding down the Bunker Hill Bridge to test the promised acceleration of 0 to 60 mph in 6.2 seconds. The prospect of accidents, however, limits Rodriguez to the speed limit. “People are in front of you all the time,” he says of other motorists, “but it’s probably a good thing because I’d go crazy.” Rodriguez instead satiates his need for speed by blasting soundtracks from his convertible while trying...
...Then the tanks, amphibious tractors and humvees head west toward the outskirts of Diwaniyah. The chum is now in the water, and the Iraqis rise immediately to take it, pinging the Marine armor with small-arms fire. A tank crewman answers, firing his coaxial machine gun into an enemy bunker. Over the radio comes a play-by-play: "Yeah baby," says a voice. "He just ate coax for breakfast," says another. But the sharks were already on hand, and in numbers, when the Marines arrived, and they seemed to fill up the palm-studded field in front of the Americans...
McCoy and his humvee team--a driver, a gunner, a radio operator and a TIME correspondent--drive across a scrub-filled field and stop on a small dirt patch between two bunkers. McCoy jumps out and shoots into the bunker on his side of the humvee. His gunner takes the other. Both turn out to be empty. But McCoy's aggressiveness is classic Marine, and the men like it. "He's the first one into battle and the last one out," says a Marine. "He's not like other battalion commanders sitting in their humvees at the back." And McCoy...
...small island nation of Gozzipstan, under heavy political pressure, has joined the “Coalition of the Willing.” They plan to aid the war effort by sending GPS-guided lies, intercontinental rumors and bunker-busting innuendo to the Middle East...
...Although statues and portraits of the dictator have been torn down and dragged through the streets, the man himself has yet to be found. U.S. intelligence reportedly believes Saddam may well have been killed by bunker-buster bombs dropped on a restaurant in the al-Mansour neighborhood Tuesday where he was sighted meeting with aides. British intelligence, however, says the Iraqi leader was seen escaping the site moments before the bombing. Iraqi opposition sources say he slipped out of the capital with at least one of his sons. Some speculated he may try to retreat to his hometown of Tikrit...