Word: bunkerism
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Mohammad Sarfarz Khan strides up a short mud path to a tunnel dug into the hillside, enters and disappears. The 61-year-old Kashmiri villager is sure-footed in the gloom, feeling his way around the shelter with practiced confidence. When he reaches the inner bunker, Khan pulls a blanket around his shoulders and peers out of a small window. It is from here that, since 1989, he has watched thousands of Indian and Pakistani artillery shells describe golden arcs as they split the air of the valley below. "I suppose we were lucky," he says, of surviving 14 years...
...soldiers began searching other houses in the area, particularly those amidst the trees on the banks of the Tigris River. They did an initial inspection of three houses, then returned to each for a closer look, keeping in mind a tip that Saddam might be hiding in an underground bunker. On the second time through the property where he was found, perhaps five strides inside the front gate, a soldier kicked away some dirt from a spot that looked odd-a spot on top of which a soldier had stood during the first pass. Underneath the dirt was a cloth...
...professional set designer, Peter Miller, “is going to have a lot of fun with Spellville,” says Putnam. Among the sets required by the script are a Cold War-style Russian conference room, a bunker and the Mayor of Spellville’s mansion...
...picks up a Bugatti's momentum. You want her more at a Volkswagen's steady trot." Aniruddha Bahal, Indian author, from a segment in his novel Bunker 13, which was given the London-based Literary Review's annual "Bad Sex in Fiction" award
...Leagues have libraries open at all hours of the day, co-chair of the Student Affairs Committee Michael J. Novielli said, adding that while Columbia’s endowment hardly matches Harvard’s, that university still manages to keep its library available to students. “Bunker Hill Community College has a 24-hour library,” the HGC secretary Riffat Manasia added...