Word: bunkerism
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...disavowed responsibility. Nannen, who founded the magazine in 1948, wrote, in the Latin once used by Roman Catholics in confessing their sins, "Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa "(my fault, my grievous fault). He explained the management's collective lapse of judgment as the product of "a bunker mentality." The magazine's renewed coverage of an episode that Nannen had hoped to forget was in fact forced by embittered employees, who for six days symbolically occupied Stern's editorial offices. The protest compelled Nannen to drop a newly named co-editor from outside the magazine, Business Journalist Johannes...
...dark side of the American Dream; a Godfearing, hardworking, lower-middle-class Protestant who wallowed in a simpler past and dreamed of better times ahead. The king of his own humble castle at 704 Houser Street in Queens, N.Y., Archie Bunker, played unfalteringly by Carroll O'Connor, entered into the American consciousness on a chilly Tuesday night in January 1971, when a nervous CBS first aired All in the Family. Archie, Wife Edith, Daughter Gloria and Son-in-Law Mike were a nuclear family born out of fission as they grappled with such TV taboos as racism, impotence, abortion...
While the 20 seconds of intensive shaking, which registered 6.5 on the Richter scale, was far short of the blockbuster so long predicted for California, the temblor turned peaceful Coalinga into a smoldering ruin. Said John Bunker, 70, owner of a downtown stationery store: "It was like a bomb dropped." At least 47 people were injured, 300 buildings were demolished, and property damage exceeded $30 million. Yet miraculously, there were no immediate deaths...
Residents rallied to one another's support. Jim Brooks opened his restaurant in the middle of the night to make free sandwiches. But many lifelong dreams were shattered. Stationer Bunker's wife Florence announced, "We are going to give up. We don't need a low-interest Government loan." Surveying the remains of a turn-of-the-century mansion he had carefully restored, Jack McCormack, 52, sighed: "I got $90,000 sitting on the ground." But Mayor Keith Scrivner refused to count Coalinga out. Said he: "We will rebuild...
...many years. They had been recovered, Heidemann claimed, from the crash of an airplane near Dresden on April 21, 1945. It was one of ten aircraft carrying Hitler's staff and priority cargo from the bunker in Berlin where he killed himself nine days later. The diaries, remarkably preserved, had been pulled from the wreckage, reported Heidemann, and concealed in a nearby hayloft...