Word: bunkered
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...When the second SCUD alert of the day came a little later in the morning, soldiers still put on their protective masks, but that seemed the only concession they were willing to make to the impending threat. Troops still headed for the bunker, but most now strolled rather then sprinted. Some did not even do that. Soldiers who waited in long lines to use phones to call home were loathe to head for bunkers and lose their position. Other soldiers, who had waited upwards of an hour to get into the post exchange appeared upset that the clerks...
...America that I see and hear every day. The people buying duct tape and plastic sheeting are the same ones who waited in line to pay $4 a gallon for gas after 9/11. While Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein are cowering in a cave or living in a bunker, the majority of Americans are living their daily lives without fear. On a recent trip, I saw a bumper sticker that sums it up best: AIN'T SKEERD. CURTIS TAYLOR Muncie...
...slopes a dozen villagers joined a ragtag band from the Kurdistan Communist Party that maintains the sole defensive bunker in the area. In all, no more than twenty-five men headed out to meet the Iraqi column. What they found was a company of about 100 infantry soldiers, backed by armored vehicles and at least two or three tanks. As the Iraqi column neared they spotted the local men with their rifles. The men waited for the Iraqis to turn on them...
...robbery, among other charges. The alleged mastermind of the campaign, urbane French-born economist Alexandros Yiotopoulos, whose penchant for tweed jackets belies the image of a terrorist leader, rebuffed the allegations, calling them part of a "cheap Anglo-American plot." The suspected terrorists are being tried in the same bunker-like chamber where Greece's dreaded junta was tried nearly 30 years ago; the junta's brutal crushing of a student revolt on Nov. 17, 1973 gave the group its name. The non-jury trial is expected to last up to five months; 11 of the accused face life sentences...
...been the nearby military headquarters, once accosted by the government soldiers he knew he would get no further. Opening the left rear door, he stepped out with one hand in his pocket, a finger poised on the trigger mechanism. TIME's correspondent witnessed the explosion from a ridge-top bunker a short distance away. A flash and thick curls of smoke engulfed the road before the crack of the explosion washed across farmers' fields. Moments later, a Kurdish government mortar battery retorted, dropping a round on the lip of an Ansar bunker within view of the chaotic checkpoint scene...