Word: bunkerism
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...into a hero of the Arab masses, paint Israel as the aggressor and perhaps force several Arab allies now in the U.S. camp over to Saddam's side, or at least to the sidelines. Following a series of war games held by the general staff in an underground command bunker in the central part of the country, Israel's brass concluded that for now, the consequences of an Iraqi attack on Israel would be less severe than the political and military fallout from a first strike on Iraq...
Saddam has often been compared with Adolf Hitler. It would be no comfort at all to those making the comparison if he too died in a bunker amid the blazing ruins of his capital at the end of a war in which he had loosed fearful bloodshed and destruction on the world...
Stress takes its toll on civility. A brutal assault by the Burmese troops that September left 40 Burmese and two Karens dead and made something in Major Than Maung snap. A few days later, a journalist visited Komura and found the major resting quietly in his bunker, surrounded by dozens of skulls mounted on stakes and planted in tidy rows. When a young Karen soldier playfully stuck a cheroot in the grinning teeth of one skull, the major chased him away. Then he grew quiet again and didn't want to be disturbed...
...badge of manhood that also serves as an animist charm to ward off evil. Sometimes Kyaw Lin is shaky and feverish because, like most of his comrades, he suffers from bouts of malaria. Nobody is there to wipe his brow or take his temperature; he just lies in his bunker until the fever subsides and he can return to fighting the Burmese...
...example, that Jimi Hendrix had a disastrous turn as an opening act for the Monkees in 1967. As comfortable with sports trivia as he is with political arcana, Ellis considers 1972 a noteworthy year because a New York Yankee (Rich McKinney) made four errors in one game and Archie Bunker received a vote for Vice President at the Democratic Convention in Miami Beach...