Word: trenched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Company L were trapped in the open near Ponggil-li by heavy machine-gun and mortar fire from a hill above. Corporal Ronald Rosser did not hesitate. With only his carbine and one white phosphorous grenade, he sprinted 100 yards up the steep slope and leaped astride an enemy trench on the heights...
...Chinese popped up on either side of him. He shot the first through the head, pivoted, firing from the hip, and shot the second through the chest. He leaped down into the trench, raced along it, firing as he ran. Five more Communists fell. He threw his grenade into a bunker. Two more enemy soldiers burst out of the smoke. He killed them. He ran back down the hill with bullets kicking the snowy turf around him, got more ammunition, gathered an attacking party and led it up the slope...
...editor of Paris' debunking journal Crapouillot (the Trench Mortar) last December went so far as to suggest that Marthe herself could do with some reforming. Citing her own book My Life as a Spy, the editor suggested that Marthe's heroism in the underground had consisted largely of a lightning-love rendezvous with Baron Hans von Krohn, German naval attache in Madrid in 1915. "Captain," Marthe had told her superior when the proposition was put to her, "it is a sacrifice costlier than death." "The Service demands it," answered the captain. "Before this beautiful duty, your small moral...
Other expeditions had sounded the deeps and found that the deepest one, the Philippine Trench off the east coast of Mindanao, lies more than six miles beneath the surface of the sea. But no one had brought up samples from the deeps. Many scientists thought that their dark, cold water could support no life...
...Gunpowder Plot" on Parliament, and that gave Samson an idea. "Let's build up a nice pile of grenades," he suggested to Sergeant "Dolly" Duncan. "Then, when the Commies come, we'll let 'em have it." Dolly agreed, and the two set to work filling a trench with hand grenades and chuckling over the Guy Fawkes surprise they were planning...