Word: slittings
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...hands praised the men for "doing their damndest," for their serious attention to camouflage, their slit trenches. There was praise for the improvement in supply, for the way the generals profited from mistakes, for the way the men kept themselves and their machines off the roads. Lay observers, remembering Bataan, thought the first burst of real fire would cure lots of minor troubles...
...Flopping on the ground or into a slit trench, or behind any kind of obstruction which breaks the surf of sound, protects ears with surprising effectiveness. So does the old-fashioned trick of sticking fingers into ears. Shields and turrets are good ear savers for gunners...
Leaping from their tanks, the crews take no time to wash the desert paste from raw faces. They seize shovels, quickly dig slit trenches just deep enough to lie in full length below the desert floor. Beside each trench goes a bedding roll. Then the tankers turn to washing. They use their water cautiously. One gallon a day has to suffice each man for drinking, cooking, cleaning his mess gear, washing himself...
...signal drum is made by an expert drum maker who digs out the core of a 2-to 3½-ft. log. He does his digging through a 3-to 4-in. slit running the length of the log. The wood on one side of the slit is thicker than that on the other to provide a difference in pitch between the two sides...
...Public Health Service and State agencies shot rabbits and ground squirrels, trapped mice, dug dead prairie dogs from their burrows. They took their catches in tight-woven bags to trucks outfitted as laboratories, parked in the shadows of mountains. They combed the rodents for fleas, then slit the carcasses to remove certain viscera and tissues. In many viscera the bacteriologists found what they feared would be there: the oval bacteria of Pasteurella pestis-the plague, the Black Death...