Word: trenched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity football practice field is the ideal place for a temporary rink, and it has lights which makes it suitable for skating in the evening when the ice stays frozen. If the HAA digs a shallow trench around the rink to produce a barricade and then floods the area at night, a hard, thick layer of ice is sure to form...
This rink will not cost much. After the initial outlay needed to finance digging a trench in the winter and replacing the ground in the spring, the only expenses will be electricity and snow removal. The HAA can cover all its expenses by charging a small admission fee to anyone without a participation ticket...
...third day the navigator died. He too had drunk sea water. "He go crazy," said Gus, "he scream and jump overboard." Sam Luttrell covered his wife and son with his trench coat, lay on top of them to shield them from the freezing spray. On the fourth morning, shivering in a sweatshirt and dungarees, Kathleen Luttrell, who had once danced in the Ziegfeld Follies, died. Her husband did not last long after. "The little boy Sammy," Gus said sobbing, ". . . all last night he cry and cry for his mamma and papa. He lay on them...
Guido's reply: "My decision is made." With a wild cry, Guido then flung open his trench coat, whipped out a homemade bomb and slammed it against the wall. There was a blinding flash. Daniele fell dead. The secretary's head was blown off. Three employees sitting in the waiting room were injured. On Guido Corini's own crushed body, the police found a note written just before he left home. "It is four o'clock," it said. "I leave with the fixed idea of revenge...
...clock one morning last week, the heavy tread of a Chinese artillery barrage marched across a Korean hillside near the 38th parallel. Sitting in a slit trench, a U.S. private caught the blast of a shell exploding in front of him. A tiny, singing splinter drove through his skull and lodged in his brain. In the foggy depths of consciousness, the private heard his buddy screaming, "Medics, damn it! Medics...