Word: bunkerism
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...building by 1960 was welcome. But with an opportunity to build the largest structure in Washington (and second in size among federal buildings only to the Pentagon across the Potomac), the State Department settled for another massive, untrimmed behemoth with about as much esthetic appeal as a concrete bunker...
...fresh from St. Lawrence University when he joined the Marines, began keeping a day-to-day journal. What The Last Parallel lacks in art, it makes up in a jagged sense of immediacy. As the first Chinese rifle fire slapped against the sandbags of his bunker outpost, Russ and a fellow marine "hugged the ground and laughed like a couple of idiots. We laughed, I suppose, because there was ACTUALLY A MAN OUT THERE WHO WAS TRYING TO kill...
...Delhi: John Sherman Cooper's post, vacant since Cooper resigned to run for the Senate, will be taken by Ellsworth Bunker, retiring American National Red Cross president* and a topnotch ambassador to Italy and Argentina under Harry Truman...
From Haymarket Square you can go on down Hanover Street through little Italy, by the Union Oyster House to the docks in one direction, and the coal yards by North Station in the other. After that you cross the river, pass the navy yard and Bunker Hill, and aren't in Boston anymore.Manye of ye finest citizens are buryed in Boston's downtowne burial ground, the Old Granary Occasionally Paul Revere and all are visited by pedestrians when the shortest line between two points is the diagonal across the graveyard...
Premier Nagy had disowned the city's 10,000-man Communist security-police force, and the Russians had pulled out leaving the hated AVH men to their fate. Most of them had found temporary ratholes. In a huge concrete bunker below Communist Party headquarters, some 200 were said to be hiding out with political prisoners as hostages. Scores hung from trees and lampposts...