Word: trenched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boundary layer between the earth's crust and mantle by drilling off the coast of Mexico, so far has penetrated only ordinary, surface-type rocks. Last week, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution reported far better success with another method. From the fractured north wall of the Puerto Rico Trench, its research ship Chain has dredged up the first samples of "third layer" rock ever gathered...
...knife-fork-spoon combination that clips together costs 70?. A length of nylon line is handy for lashing bedrolls and tents. Flashlights and spare batteries should be packed, as well as a small kerosene lamp, books, matches in a waterproof case, first-aid kit, candle, knife, hatchet, bucket, small trench shovel, mosquito repellent, aluminum foil, toilet paper, foul-weather clothing, cameras, binoculars, a good topographical map (available at park and forest headquarters), handy nature guides and a Thermos...
...improbable stories sounded like a relic from a world that never was. But Karl von Wiegand brought that world alive. He was a living legend, whose very name might have been lifted from E. Phillips Oppenheim. He was the stage version of the foreign correspondent, complete with collar-up trench coat, brim-down hat, and blackthorn cane. He was a man who had known Hitler in 1921, interviewed two Popes, chartered the Graf Zeppelin for a trip around the world, covered twelve wars and been wounded in two. He had been a working newspaperman for 62 years...
Buttoning Up. Challe paced the lobby of the building, puffing furiously on his pipe. Salan shivered from the cold. His wife kissed Salan, tied a white silk scarf around his neck, helped him into a trench coat and buttoned him up like a child. The two men walked out to a convoy of the ist Foreign Legion Parachute Regiment, climbed into trucks with their troopers and drove off into the night...
...filled with living Jews: "They were shooting into the pit, and I saw a woman, her hands seemed tied behind her back, and then my knees went weak and I went away." But not far, for he was soon watching another mass execution near by. "There was a trench-already filled, and there was a kind of spring of blood gushing from the earth, and this, too, I had never seen before. I had had enough and went back to Berlin...