Word: slit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...article ex-Buster Arnold judicially recorded his opinion that labor has become a national headache, that it is perhaps more unpopular in the slit trenches of World War II than in the posh clubs of professional New Deal haters, and that the great body of public approval essential for effective labor support is crumbling all along the line...
...Damned rear guard holding up a whole division," he said. "Where are our troops?" He swung his binoculars north. "Oh, yeh. I see three of them. Crossing an open field. Why the hell don't they take cover?" A few minutes later he crawled over to a slit-trench phone, talked to a regimental commander. "Of course, your battalion commander knows more about the situation than I do," he said smoothly. "But maybe we ought to get in there fast and exploit this barrage." Back at the outpost, he commented: "We're going to attack in half...
...will take much more education than H.E. shells and slit trenches to produce the postwar millennium . . . where nine million new veterans will be intelligent, cosmopolitan, informed voters for strong, fearless statesmanship...
When a soldier lives in the field, Charlie, he goes through a hell on earth. . . . You go to bed in a slit trench at 11:30 at night and you get up at 3:15 in the morning. When the bivouac is over and you come back to your barracks you are . . . mad at the whole damn world. Then you pick up the paper and read about some civilian war workers out on strike and that really makes you blow your...
...average American boy was unusually naive concerning politics-before he crouched in a slit trench and began to think a little. The noise of H.E. shells exploding a few yards from him has awakened him from political lethargy. After we have won this war, nine million American boys are going to crawl out of their last slit trench and cast nine million intelligent votes . . . [for] strong fearless statesmanship...