Word: trenched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Radcliff" is an unbelted trench-coat in natural color. It has concealed buttons under a front panel, large pockets, and a pointed collar. For extra warmth, it boasts a button-in lining of loden green wool...
Those whom the war did not kill, it maimed. Kirchner retired to a sanitarium in Switzerland, later committed suicide. George Grosz emerged from a military hospital for the insane with the horrors of trench warfare, which he painted with the richness of Rubens, burned into his memory. In the postwar years of angry anarchy Grosz emerged as the self-styled "propagandada" of the Dada movement's antiart antics. (Today Grosz, an American citizen, lives on Long Island, N.Y., paints landscapes, nudes, and insect parables that "express the emptiness of man.") Oskar Kokoschka was shot and bayoneted through the chest...
...installation on the icecap needs good supply routes to the outside world. Airlift is too expensive and dangerous, and weather on the icecap is often too rough for surface transport. So the engineers are putting roads under the ice too. With a Peters plow they dig a long trench 20 ft. deep. They roof it temporarily with curved, corrugated sheet metal, and cover the metal with snow. After the snow has had a few days to pack and harden, the metal can be removed, leaving a firm arch of snow like the roof of an Eskimo's igloo...
...laughed back the query of one bystander, "Do you come with the car?," replying "No, should I?" She also assured another that she could really type with no trouble when the car was in motion. At that, one trench-coated spectator grunted out from under his peaked cap, "This country has gone to Hell...
...Generation. For all his newfangled, semi-bullet-proof vest of spun glass and nylon, Author Russ was in a war that was part French-and-Indian ambush tactics and part World War I trench fighting. Long before Russ joined the outfit on New Year's Day 1953, the Korean war had become a stalemate of dug-in positions. Massive mortar and artillery barrages confined both sides to night patrols, reconnaissance, ambush or recovery of the dead. With a certain Byronesque recklessness, Russ volunteered for them all. A Book-of-the-Month Club selection for January, The Last Parallel...