Word: trenched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Modern New Zealand geologists have another explanation. In some past age a strip of land 120 miles long and up to 30 miles wide sank below the surrounding land and got cracked up in the process. The trench was later filled partially with silt and volcanic debris, but the cracks did not heal. They still lead down toward molten rock perhaps 30,000 ft. below the surface...
...whole trench is conveniently capped by a layer of impermeable siltstone a few hundred feet below the present surface. Beneath it, porous rock accumulates steam like a kind of natural boiler. A well only 1,000 ft. deep taps this reservoir. Some of the steam is "juvenile," coming from water that was trapped in the deep interior when the earth was young and rising upward through the deep faults. The rest derives from surface water that has trickled down through cracks and been turned to steam by heat from below. When the steam gets to the surface, its pressure...
...factory office, White unhesitatingly admitted that he had killed Dugan. Dazed from strain and sleeplessness, White told an incoherent story. When he noticed that Dugan was following him, he said, he stopped his car and got out. Dugan parked, came toward him with his hand in his trench-coat pocket. Thinking that Dugan had a pistol, Malcolm White went "berserk," ag he told it, drew the pistol for which he had got a permit a month before, and started shooting...
...course that trench fighting is way out of date now. But it was a stinking business: trench-foot, wet, trenchmouth, lice, mud, flu. I remember we used to open our tins of food and they'd be all blown up with gas and poison." He looks out over the dump silently, gazing...
This summer, guided by pottery fragments that seemed to have washed from higher ground, he and his men dug a trench up the hill behind the villa. It led them into a temple that had passed out of human memory more than 1,000 years ago. He realized that he had found something unique in Roman Britain: a temple built especially to serve the memory of a wealthy Roman-British couple...