Word: bunkerisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israelis had converted one bunker into a first-aid station. The soldiers stood silently, saying nothing, not even smoking. Others were sprawled out as still as corpses. "They're not dead," one grizzled trooper explained, "just dead tired." He explained that the men had been in combat since the opening shots of the war. One soldier asked me to phone a message to his parents. On a piece of paper ripped from a brown grocery bag he scribbled: "Dear Mom and Dad. I am writing this between battles. Don't worry. I'm O.K. Everything is fine...
...surge of Egyptians was too much for the canal defenders, a thin band of regular-army forces reduced that weekend by Yom Kippur passes. "My God," said a radioman in one bunker reporting back to Israel's secondary defenses ten miles to the rear, "it's like the Chinese coming across." Another forward observer reported that "hundreds, thousands of Egyptians are swimming toward our fort. We need reinforcements quickly...
Despite the destruction and chaos, the Israelis seemed confident. The command post was re-established in a bunker, and fresh soldiers were pouring in. Golan Heights Commander Major General Yitzhak ("Khaka") Hofi assured us: "Our forces are essentially in a mopping-up operation. The Syrians committed their entire armored force. They wanted to take the Golan and move on to Haifa...
...front, air-raid sirens suddenly wailed, and troops scrambled to the alert, grabbing for helmets and ducking for cover. The camp had been strafed by MIGS early in the fighting. Nearby elements were already being hit by Egyptian artillery. The first thing we were told was, "There is a bunker not far from here if the bombing starts." At an observation bunker, a young lieutenant with curly hair squinted anxiously at the sky and chattered into his field telephone...
DeBary contends that universities should be trying not only to hold the line on liberal education but also to advance it. "Far from holing up in its own bunker," he asserted, "general education should try to break out into new ground where it can hope to enlist new recruits and find new intellectual sustenance...