Word: trenched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seasoned operatives from Japan's wartime intelligence services, including Yuzuru Fukamachi, 65, a onetime navy code specialist, and Tatsuo Furuya, 55, Japan's intelligence chief in wartime Shanghai. President Kurihara and his men claim to be down to earth about their job. Says Kurihara: "We wear trench coats for warmth, not atmosphere...
...discovery came as a surprise David G. Mitten, teaching fellow in Fine Arts, had driven a trench from the main avenue of Sardis to find the colonnade of a Roman gymnasium. Instead, he found a building nearly 60 feet wide and more than 120 feet long, paved with mosaics, revetted with marble, and featuring a triple gate between an eastern and a western hall...
Lieut. Bandy learns about liquor when he is sent off on a trench raid with a canteen filled with rum: magnificently drunk, he loses his bearings, raids his own trench, and kidnaps his colonel. Bandy needs all of his Christian resolve to avoid being seduced by a pillow-breasted wench: "She clutched her arms around my head, burying my face even deeper in her bosom until my nose was bent almost double against her sternum and her nipples were stuck in my earholes like a stethoscope...
...trary," he insisted, "I wish to show that the bathyscaphe is a dependable scien tific device in which the father of a family may entrust himself without anxiety." He raised no objections when in 1960 Jacques cruised the good ship Trieste to the bot tom of the Marianas Trench, the deepest known place in the ocean, where the water pressure at 37,800 ft. is eight tons per square inch...
...look on the screen," she says with professionally detached candor. "It would be a nice experience to be dominated for once." Tab Hunter was her partner in That Kind of Woman. When little 5-ft. 6-in. Alan Ladd did a film with 5-ft. 8-in. Sophia, a trench was dug so they could walk along side by side. Houseboat gave her a chance to show her comic talent opposite Cary Grant, but by then she had had enough of Hollywood, and she returned to Rome...