Word: bunkerism
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...last hole of the tourney, he flubbed a shot from a bunker-just like a Sunday duffer. But on the next try, the ball hopped out like a trained rabbit, five feet from the pin. He canned the putt for a score of 284, enough to win his third British Open and the cheers of 10,000 spectators. The first prize was worth only $600 in cash, but a hundred times that in prestige. As a shot in the arm for British sport lovers, the value of his victory was beyond reckoning...
...same tornado hit nearby Bunker Hill (pop. 1,350), demolished more than 200 of its 300 houses. Other tornadoes tore across the Indiana countryside, blowing over barns and wrecking trees...
...Nazi woman, director of all the women's organizations in the Reich. According to Nürnberg's war criminals' list, Heiszmeyer was "presumed dead," Scholtz-Klink was "dead." Witnesses had "identified" her body among those removed from Hitler's Berlin air-raid bunker...
...Nuremberg Diary, written from his daily notes, was the best composite picture of Göring & Co. Most persuasive of the speculations about Hitler was H. R. Trevor-Roper's The Last Days of Hitler, a skillful reconstruction, from evidence that was necessarily circumstantial but convincing, of the bunker Götterdämmerung. Those who thought there were no '"good" Germans might have changed their minds after reading Allen Welsh Dulles' Germany's Underground and To the Bitter End, a history of the German plots against Hitler, by Hans Gisevius, one of the plotters...
...Recently, the British tried to destroy an anti-aircraft bunker in Berlin's Tiergarten by setting off a 50,000-lb. charge of TNT (TIME, Sept. 8). The bunker did not budge...