Word: bunkering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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SENTENCED. George Hansen, 53, colorful, right-wing Republican Congressman from Idaho; to five to 15 months in prison and a $40,000 fine, for filing false financial-disclosure statements to Congress that, among other things, omitted his monetary ties to Texas Billionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt; in Washington...
After the speech, the President and his wife gamely descended into a German bunker, then flew to the American cemetery above Omaha Beach. Walking alone arm in arm among the geometrically perfect rows of graves, they paid silent homage to the American dead. At the grave of an unknown soldier, the First Lady placed some flowers; later she laid a spray of carnations and blue irises at the tombstone of Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr., the son of his presidential namesake, who landed on Utah Beach with the 4th Infantry Division and died of a heart attack one month later...
...sure if there'd be a show without Ted." Shales says. "He's as important to 'Nightline' as Carroll O'Connor was to 'All in the Family,' and the similarities don't end there." Shales refers not to Archie Bunker's bigotry but rather to O'Connor's ego, which, he says, became legendary in television circles. "Ted has an enormous ego It's impossible not to at that level...
Ferraro has been on a very fast track ever since she went to Washington in 1979 as a new Congresswoman from Archie Bunker's district. Eager to work her way up from lowly assignments like the Post Office and Civil Service Committee, Ferraro uncomplainingly attended 8 a.m. meetings, took on tedious tasks and carefully cultivated the Democratic leadership. O'Neill became her champion. With his blessing she was elected secretary of the Democratic caucus, a job traditionally reserved for a woman. In her third term, O'Neill put her on the powerful House Budget Committee, bypassing more...
...just lost two of my best friends," he says. "They were picked off right next to me. Then, in St.-Lô, we had just seized an artillery battery and taken all these prisoners when our own artillery started hitting all around us. I jumped into a bunker hole with two of the Germans. They marked on the side of the wall that they were 17 years old and had bicycled for three weeks from Germany to get there." Says Van Hoy, his face full of wonder, "You know I actually felt sorry for them...