Word: trenched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cast light on this matter of national concern; for example, funk, "a state of panic," "first listed as Oxford slang." The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary is uncertain. See BLUE, they suggest. But before we do, notice a term in which "funk" is used in combination: Funkhole, military slang, "a trench dug-out; employment used as a pretext for evading military service." Here we have another connection which the Times surely, must have had in mind...
Tight Smiles. Hemmed in by five sniffling children who always seem to be "passing the family cold sloppily among them" and a mother-in-law "with a voice like a trench mortar," Bert feels his boredom growing "wantonly, insanely; every week it flung another wet arm around him." As boredom grows, faith recedes, and guilt closes in on Bert like a summer fog. He sits before his typewriter starting sentences he never finishes ("Where pagans go wrong is that . . ."; "Christmas, as Chesterton once put it . . ."). The rejection slips pile up. Whenever Bert tries to explain his trial of faith...
Nomadic Novelist. Waugh's description of the tedium and terror of trench warfare is excellent, but The Early
...grandfather's bank, he bought a wardrobe of Styleplus clothes so dazzling that he became known locally as "The Count." For the rest of his life, recalls his brother, Bill dressed the part of a country squire with meticulous care, striding the streets of Oxford in trench coat and patched tweeds carrying a hawthorn walking stick. He went back to the great woods year after year, but he was too much of "a tenderhearted someone" to really enjoy hunting...
...Danny Milland, 23, is launching a television career with his first bit parts. He is a towering 6 ft. 6 in. Says his father Ray: "They're going to have to dig a trench hole for him whenever he's got a short leading lady...