Word: bunkers
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...burlap bag full of cantaloupes; the next she is sleazing through the dusk in black lace with the toothsome glitter of a backstreet-walker in Naples. And she battles her way into a girdle of yesteryear with all the fury and desperation of the Royal Welch Fusiliers at Bunker Hill, somehow imparting to her defeat some of the sorrowful majesty of a historical debacle...
...stories are better known or more poorly documented than that of the death of Adolf Hitler. Popular imagination the world over has been quick to seize on the macabre details of those last days in the bunker in flaming Berlin, where a mad genius cringed in the rain of Allied bombs and felt the walls of his terrible world closing in upon him. The suicide of his scheming henchman Goebbels, the defection of those who fattened on the blood he had spilled, the last-minute marriage with his blowzy mistress Eva Braun, the suicide pact they made together...
...other ex-prisoner was Hitler's valet, Heinz Linge, who was held for interrogation for three years in Moscow before being sent to a P.W. camp. The Führer and Eva, said Linge. "were alone in one of the bunker rooms. Eva Braun took poison. Hitler shot himself. I carried his body out of the bunker and then helped pour the gasoline over it." He watched for five minutes while flames devoured the leader of the master race. If Linge spoke the truth, this was at last the incontrovertible eyewitness testimony needed to declare Adolf Hitler legally dead...
When the patriots took over Cambridge in 1775, the abandoned Tory Row homes were put to various uses, but most of them seem to have been hospitals, especially after Bunker Hill. Others housed the Continental Army. Major Thomas Mifflin, Washington's aide-decamp, lived in the old Brattle mansion, where everyone seems to have dropped in for tea, including generals, Indians, and John Adams, who stopped in just before signing the Declaration of Independence. The John Vassall, Jr. home at one point contained a whole company of Glover's Marblehead militia. This motley crew, however, was turned out in favor...
...fugitive from the vengeance of Charles II. With his steeple hat, his flowing white beard, his Bible and his sword, William Goffe became a New England legend (Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote of him as The Gray Champion}. Years after his death, the shade of William Goffe reportedly appeared at Bunker Hill, and, later, before John Brown in the engine house at Harper's Ferry...