Word: bunking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came to my bunk a little while ago and he said: "I'm so goddam mad I'm never going to believe a radio commentator or newspaperman again...
...encouraging to find Technical Sergeant George believing that most soldiers will emerge from the Army better men than they went in, and that he finds the old cry that war ruins a lot of men to be "bunk...
...great majority of the boys here are sending most of their money home for the purchase of war bonds and to guarantee a secure future when they do return. In fact, the old cry that war ruins men is a lot of bunk as far as I have been able to observe. I believe that the soldiers here are more sober, thriftier, and go to church more than an equal number of civilians do. If a man comes through combat without physical harm I believe that he will be a much better man than he was before the Army service...
...Melendes had been arrested three nights earlier in a raffish nightclub (one with women hostesses and rooms upstairs). He had admitted his part in a $40 robbery. His cell mate and partner in the crime, Andrew Brinkley, testified at the perfunctory in quest that Melendes had fallen off his bunk, cracked his head on the concrete floor. The coroner's verdict: death caused by kidney disease and congestion of the brain...
Concerning watch duty members of the Senior Class will stand watches as often as required, but will probably always be assigned the duties of Battalion Duty Officer. Consequently, they may bunk in the Duty Office on Watch nights...