Word: bunkerism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...made automatic rifles. Then they moved into the capital of Managua, which had been paralyzed by a general strike. While Somoza's air force wheeled overhead, raining down barrages of machine-gun fire, the Sandinistas* fought their way to within blocks of the President's fortified command bunker, where the mustachioed dictator was directing a desperate counterattack...
...mounting carnage served only to strengthen Somoza's determination to hang onto the presidency. "I have no reason to abandon my constitutional post," he declared from his bunker last week. The uprising, Somoza maintained, "was the work of Cuba and Panama," which he claimed had armed and trained the guerrillas. To prove the point, Somoza brandished the identification papers of three Panamanians, including a former Deputy Minister of Health, who was said to have been slain last week by national guardsmen near the Costa Rican border...
...Time School Television (PTST), a Chicago-based, nonprofit organization that prepares TV-related study guides. And PTST illustrates the general principle of prime-time teaching: use the screen to get students' attention, then engage their intelligence with questions, study guides and sometimes scripts read as homework. Thereafter, Archie Bunker's layoff from his job on the loading dock can be used to prompt a class discussion of unemployment. An arrest by Starsky and Hutch helps illustrate constitutional guarantees like that of a suspect's right to counsel. The approach is being applied by different companies in slightly...
...Johnny Vander Meer, Allie Reynolds, Virgil Trucks, Jim Maloney, and Nolan Ryan 2) Larry Dierker 3)Jim Palmer, Wally Bunker, and Dave McNally 4)Craig Swan 5)Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmy Foxx, Joe Cronin and Al Simmons 6)Chris Chambliss and Roy White 7)Monte Irvin 8)Bob Buhl 9)Roger Craig, Gil Hodges, Jim Marshall, and Don Zimmer 10)Chris Cannizzaro 11)Billy Martin 12)The San Francisco Giants...
...unshakeable throughout the tourney, played well nigh invincible golf. He approached the 477-yd. par five 18th hole on Friday needing a birdie to finish at par. He decided to go for the green and bombed a 245-yd. shot with his Pederson three-wood that drifted over the bunker guarding the right side of the green and the ball landed 15 feet from the pin. After that resounding shot, he had no trouble making his four...