Word: trenched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rifles. But 17-year-old Private Seymour clung to duty, and duty was delivering his company's rum tot in two glazed-crockery jugs. The officer who was supposed to get the rum turned out to be dead, so Seymour buried the crocks where a hedge crossed a trench...
...north end of Bahrein Island is a ruined Portuguese fort and near it a mound 40 ft. high, 2,400 ft. long and 1,200 ft. wide. Dr. Glob (who, says Bibby, has "a fine eye for country") picked it out, hired native laborers to cut a trench into it. Done properly, this is slow work: for years the archaeologists worked on the mound. Piled in layers were vertical walls and stamped clay floors all mixed with bits of pottery and copper...
Tieless in Calcutta's sun one day and trench-coated in Kabul's icy drizzle the next, the Soviet chieftain wound up his tour on a characteristic note, proclaiming himself the apostle of peace and his country "the world's strongest military power." He had mended some fences, dispensed a good deal of largesse. Peking's continued silence about his journey suggested, moreover, that the Chinese Communists had decided this was the most face-saving manner to adopt while conforming to Khrushchev's major line of peaceful coexistence...
...above the bottom were a shrimp and a jellyfish, neither of them bothered by the enormous pressure on their bodies. The very fact that these creatures were living and healthy proved that the water had oxygen in it. Therefore it must circulate, because if it were stagnant in the trench, its oxygen would long since have disappeared. One immediate conclusion: ocean trenches are not safe places for dumping radioactive wastes, since their water does not stay...
...Space capsule. 71. The U.S. Navy sent its bathyscaph to the bottom of the Marianas Trench and found that the trench is all but one of the following: a) 1.7 miles deeper than Mount Everest is high...