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I seem to remember an episode of All in the Family where Archie Bunker is trapped in an elevator with a Puerto Rican couple ready to have a baby and a snobbishly aristocratic black millionaire.
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Bunker is one of nearly 600 Americans lost in Laos.
Bunker, Park G. 1990
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Archie Bunker is extremely popular as exhibiting much of the discomfort that results from his being frequently subjected to new situations which are alien to his specialized emotional rigidities and his very particularized points of view that result from his having a fixed position at all times when looking at his world.
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As soon as the Americans became aware of Gage's intention they determined to frustrate it, and accordingly, on the night of the 16th of June, a force of about 1200 men, under Colonel William Prescott and Major-General Israel Putnam, with some engineers and a few field-guns, occupied Breed's Hill -- to which the name Bunker Hill is itself now popularly applied -- and when daylight disclosed their presence to the
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various
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"Why do you keep that fellow they call Bunker Mouse in your watch?" the chief once asked.
The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915
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In 2007, when Lower East Side music institution Tonic closed, the electronic-music party known as the Bunker which was held in Tonic's tiny basement was forced to Brooklyn.
Soulful Steps in the Club Andy Beta 2011
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In a Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists piece titled Bunker mentality: Is NNSA digging itself into a hole at LosAlamos?,
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One recent night at a saloon called The Bunker, a resident contractor asked, "So, what's going on out there in Iraq anyway?"
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Bunker Fuel -- or more accurately called Bunker Oil -- remains off the record, ghost stuff, as non-existent as the prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay, making the CO2 emissions for the military even grosser than anyone's assumptions and calculations.
Barry Sanders: The Green Zone: The Military's Addiction To Oil 2008
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We suspect they were sleeping off hangovers in the Bunker, which is the clubhouse of the student society and is located just off campus.
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