Word: bunkered
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...disavowed responsibility. Nannen, who founded the magazine in 1948, wrote, in the Latin once used by Roman Catholics in confessing their sins, "Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa "(my fault, my grievous fault). He explained the management's collective lapse of judgment as the product of "a bunker mentality." The magazine's renewed coverage of an episode that Nannen had hoped to forget was in fact forced by embittered employees, who for six days symbolically occupied Stern's editorial offices. The protest compelled Nannen to drop a newly named co-editor from outside the magazine, Business Journalist Johannes...
...with a net worth of $30 million or more each. Debrett's aristocrats are selected by Georgia Author Hugh Best (Red Hot & Blue). The largest landholders of this pride of peers, the King-Kleberg clan, at one point owned 13 million acres around the world, though, as Nelson Bunker Hunt observed, "a billion dollars isn't what it used to be." Among other renowned Texas aristocrats: Fort Worth's Perry Richardson Bass and Son Sid, and Houston's Roy Cullen III, oilmen; and Dallas' William Walter Caruth and Fort Worth's Anne Windfohr Phillips...
...Camminacammina) and Poland's Andrzej Wajda (Danton)-were not enough to keep businessmen and journalists from grousing, as they lolled for a fortnight in one of the world's lushest garden spots. Nor will a disappointing festival keep these congenital optimists from returning next year to this bunker on the Côte d'Azur. - By Richard Corliss
...dark side of the American Dream; a Godfearing, hardworking, lower-middle-class Protestant who wallowed in a simpler past and dreamed of better times ahead. The king of his own humble castle at 704 Houser Street in Queens, N.Y., Archie Bunker, played unfalteringly by Carroll O'Connor, entered into the American consciousness on a chilly Tuesday night in January 1971, when a nervous CBS first aired All in the Family. Archie, Wife Edith, Daughter Gloria and Son-in-Law Mike were a nuclear family born out of fission as they grappled with such TV taboos as racism, impotence, abortion...
...many years. They had been recovered, Heidemann claimed, from the crash of an airplane near Dresden on April 21, 1945. It was one of ten aircraft carrying Hitler's staff and priority cargo from the bunker in Berlin where he killed himself nine days later. The diaries, remarkably preserved, had been pulled from the wreckage, reported Heidemann, and concealed in a nearby hayloft...