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  • "Bunkie" -- the soldier who shares the shelter half or tent of a comrade in the field.

    The Plattsburg Manual A Handbook for Military Training Olin Oglesby Ellis 1920

  • But beginning with a new division General Manager Semon E. "Bunkie" Knudsen (whose father had been a GM CEO) in the mid-'50s, Pontiac entered NASCAR with their "Super Duty" performance packages and thrived in that sport and NHRA drag racing in the late '50s (Jim Wangers won Pontiac its first NHRA national event victory in 1960 at Detroit Dragway driving in the stock class).

    Steve Parker: Report: Pontiac Dies on Monday 2009

  • DeLorean, division general manager Semon "Bunkie" Knudsen and chief engineer Pete Estes inspired the cars that soon would reshape the division.

    Salon 2009

  • "Bunkie," said Blackford, to a dare-devil like himself, "welcome to the

    Crittenden A Kentucky Story of Love and War John Fox 1891

  • Not since the first post-war models of ‘46 has the guessing board been so active in “The world’s biggest poker game,” as Pontiacs Bunkie Knudsen recently described the car industry to me.

    2008 December 2008

  • In Bunkie, 3 people in one precinct voted for me and only 2 votes showed up for me.

    Your Right Hand Thief 2007

  • In Bunkie, 3 people in one precinct voted for me and only 2 votes showed up for me.

    Archive 2007-10-01 2007

  • Staff Sgt. Bryan A. Lewis, 32, of Bunkie, La., died north of Rustamiyah, Iraq, on March 13, when an improvised device detonated near his HMMWV during a convoy operations.

    Gulf War II 2006

  • If you're a parent in Atlanta contemplating a move to Louisiana, "do the public schools in Bunkie teach the theory of evolution" is not going to be on your list of worries.

    The righty bloggers' favorite elected Republican is... Ann Althouse 2008

  • Not that you can't pass a good time in Bunkie, but I wouldn't want to live there.

    The righty bloggers' favorite elected Republican is... Ann Althouse 2008

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