Word: bunker
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Across the road from his office was Kim's private air-raid bunker, 70 to 100 feet underground and connected by a tunnel with the residence of his Russian advisers. In the bunker Kim had complete living quarters, a music room with an organ and a one-chair barber shop...
...Like Bunker Hill & Gettysburg. When they sailed from Norfolk, Va. the marines had never heard of Guadalcanal. Major General Alexander Archer Vandegrift, who had by then taken over the division, had been given almost no time for practice, planning and staging. On Aug. 7, 1942, the marines went ashore on Guadal, without meeting resistance. The only first-day casualty was a leatherneck who cut himself trying to open a coconut...
...marines proved they had plenty of guts. They held their ground until, in November, the resurgent Navy under "Bull" Halsey finally drove the Jap warships out of the area and put 2nd Marine Division and Army reinforcements ashore. Among Americans, Guadalcanal has become a household word, as familiar as Bunker Hill and Gettysburg...
...others practiced too, and Locke's opening 69 was one stroke off the pace. On the second round, he seemed to slip a cog on the par-three fifth hole. His tee shot slid into the rough, his attempt to get out of trouble landed him in a bunker. His third shot failed to clear, and he had to take a fat six strokes on the little hole...
...Including Reader Bunker, 18. Composer Dallapiccola adapted his libretto from two works: The Torture of Hope, and some of the more sinister legends of 14th Century German prankster Till Eulenspiegel...