Word: bunkered
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...neighborhood in Sao Paulo, Daslu is a repository of Chanel jackets and Frette linens. What makes the store's unbridled luxury even more pronounced is the yawning chasm between the rich and the poor in Brazil. Daslu has no elaborate window displays a la Barneys--the exterior resembles a bunker--and the store is encircled by a phalanx of unsmiling security guards...
...eight days, the warnings of a decisive military showdown echoed across Najaf as fighting raged between U.S. forces and Shi'ite militiamen for control of the holy city. The Shi'ites' truculent leader, cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, vowed not to leave his bunker in the sect's sacred Imam Ali shrine "until the last drop of my blood has been spilled." The U.S. Marine colonel commanding American and Iraqi-government troops battling the stubborn gunmen of al-Sadr's Mahdi Army proclaimed his men were ready "to finish this fight that the Muqtada militia started." Iyad Allawi, the Prime Minister...
...time it's a boy. In the autumn, I am coming home." Fritz Schröder never came home, and never met his newborn son. On Oct. 4, 1944, two months after Romania declared war on Germany, he was killed, reportedly by a Katyusha rocket, while fighting in a bunker just south of Ceanu Mare. Anica Cuc, 88, was 28 at the time. Taking a break in her garden from some afternoon weeding last week, she recalled an ox-drawn wooden cart pulling up outside the village church after the battle, where it deposited "eight or nine" bodies that were...
...very perceptible difference--the darkness, the lack of automobiles, the dark clothes. It just seemed bleak. And I sensed the foreboding unwelcomeness to it." One day he went so far as to ride his bike through Checkpoint Charlie and into East Berlin to look around and visit Hitler's bunker. When Richard realized where his son had gone, John recalls, "My dad was not thrilled. He explained to me that I could have [caused] an international incident. I think he took my passport. I think I got grounded--passport grounded...
...handover of sovereignty only underscores the desperate security situation in Iraq. No one expected the Iraqis to take over with an inaugural parade and marching bands and baton twirlers and a speech before crowds of thousands but some semblance of a ceremony was expected. Instead, it was done bunker-style because of the threats to the new regime...