Word: trenched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...West German TV network last week carried a 65-minute Eichmann documentary that pulled no punches, showing everything from naked men and women being pushed into a gas chamber to a sequence of hundreds of victims literally running into a long trench and then being shot dead by SS men. Cried a 24-year-old German girl: "What are we supposed to say? Must we proclaim forever that we are guilty? What more is there to say of such horror...
...Maurice Macmillan is a director of the family publishing concern, has been an M.P. since 1955, and for all his trench ant knocks at his father's government, is a close friend and frequent teatime companion of the Prime Minister...
...white mustache, he rarely answers questions except with a speech, and anything will set him off. "I have looked at many American faces," he improvised for an interviewer last week. "I've seen them as flak burst around them 9,000 ft. over Japan and in a slit trench on Okinawa watching the night sky to see where the next bomb would fall. I have seen American faces in a Congregational Church in New Hampshire and in a miners' union hall in Duluth on a night when the wind off the lake blew the snow in killingly...
...speakers eventually returned to musical fare, and the cold leftovers of the crowd drifted off down towards the Common and back into the Court House, their black cashmere coats and trench-coats up about their ears...
Charley O'Brien, the man in charge, is short and brush-haired, and holds his cigarette in a clenched fist. He had not bothered to take off his trench-coat. "Ward's a shoo-in," he stated, "because Kennedy's gonna win Massachusetts by 500,000 votes for sure." He spread out a Boston Globe on one of the six empty tables in the headquarters. "Look at that--the Herald, the Globe, and the Traveler have all gone back on their accusation that Ward's name is printed heavier on the ballot...