Word: bunkerisms
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...came face-to-face with justice for the first time, he strove to uphold the swaggering image he had so carefully cultivated through decades of actual and exaggerated derring-do. "This man is a star," Carlos said by way of greeting the investigating magistrate, Jean-Louis Bruguiere, in his bunker-like quarters at the Palais de Justice. "We are both professionals. We'll get along together." Gesturing toward the assault rifles carried by his four police escorts, Carlos bantered, "Ah! The FA-MAS. We had those in Lebanon. They're good." Though it was a display of insouciance...
...eyes of the Western world, Vladimir Zhirinovsky is a loudmouth megalomaniac somewhere between Benito Mussolini and Archie Bunker. Rising from the murk of obscurity in post-Cold War Soviet politics, Zhirinovsky pulled himself out of the depths with threaRTLÄo restore Russia's imperial borders, retake Alaska, partition Poland and even employ large fans to blow radioactive waste across Russia and into the Baltic states. Such threats had become trademark Zhirinovsky moves, ignored by many. But since last December when Zhirinovsky's Liberal Democratic Party captured 25% of the vote in the party preference poll, Russian liberals...
...bawling the now famous charge: "There are two kinds of men on this beach: the dead, and those about to die. So let's get the hell out of here!" The colonel went up the ridge, but Franklin stayed to do his job, taking refuge in a captured German bunker...
...beach to cross, and nowhere to hide. There were people falling around us. I was carrying a good stock of morphine and bulky bandages powdered with sulfonamides. I had instructions not to stop for anybody until we made it to the casino, which the Germans had turned into a bunker. But I made an exception for Lieut. Commander Philippe Kieffer because I thought it was a good idea to hang on to our leader. He took some shrapnel, so I bandaged him quickly and gave him some morphine...
Nixon applied the realpolitik which Henry Kissinger '50 preached in foreign policy matters against his enemies at home. The "bunker mentality" of the Nixon White house was reinforced by a nexus of illegal espionage and sabotage operations against citizens on Nixon's "Enemies List." When Daniel Ellsberg '52 released the Pentagon Papers, Nixon's men bugged his psychiatrist's office to "neutralize" him. Where other presidents might have settled for damage control, Nixon, again, broke...