Word: bunkerisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...second shot, lofted a lovely 120-yd. pitch to the green: the ball hit a foot beyond the cup and took a backward hop in for an impossible eagle two. On the ninth hole, another tough par four, he blasted a six-iron approach out of a bunker and through some branches 158 yds. to a green he could not even see; the ball rolled dead two feet from the hole, and he had a birdie three. On the 13th, Stockton's second shot splashed into a pond; he took a one-stroke penalty, dropped another ball...
...Then, in 1967, O'Neill made a hawkish speech at Boston College, his alma mater, to a hostile young audience that included two of his children. Irked by one student questioner, he exploded: "I've had 43 briefings on the war from all the experts?Johnson, Westmoreland, Abrams, Bunker, Lodge, Rusk, McNamara?and I think I know more
...prepared to take on the whole burden. But two months later this was changed when the full commission voted to have small, local celebrations across the nation. Even fewer people seemed to like that idea. "Without federal coordination, we'll probably just have a few Minutemen run up Bunker Hill and shoot redcoats every third day," mused James Matthew, Boston Expo's general manager. On behalf of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Senators Hugh Scott and Richard Schweiker groused about the "highly unusual procedures" of the commission and hinted at a congressional investigation if the decentralization decision were not reconsidered...
...Silhouette. Russian troops in Egypt are under the control of Soviet Ambassador to Cairo Sergei Vinogradov, who acts as a kind of proconsul for the Kremlin with somewhat the same role and prestige as U.S. Ambassador to Saigon Ellsworth Bunker. The Soviet military men, as well as the civilians, generally try to maintain an extremely low silhouette. Missile technicians live in self-contained tent communities. "An SA3 site," says a Western diplomat, "comes with cooks, bottle washers, the lot." Occasionally an Egyptian might glimpse a busload of Russians visiting the pyramids, or see a group of beefy, fair-skinned workers...
...Communist troops moved through Thanh My hurling various sorts of explosives-grenades, satchel charges and homemade devices called "Chicom grenades," which are fashioned from Coca-Cola cans filled with plastique or TNT, rocks and nails. Explosives dumped into one large bunker killed 24 persons. "When the V.C. came, they shot every house," says Hoan Than Tick, 56, a resident who escaped. "When people ran, they shot them too. Then they threw grenades into the bunkers...