Word: trenched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from the deepest depths ever reached by man, Jacques Piccard and Lieut. Don Walsh flew into Washington last week to receive decorations from President Eisenhower, and to tell how it felt as the bathyscaph Trieste dropped seven miles down through the Pacific Ocean to the bottom of the Marianas Trench...
...Navy's bathyscaph Trieste reached its goal last week: the bottom of the Marianas Trench, which is believed to be the deepest place in all the world's oceans. Manned by Jacques Piccard, son of the bathyscaph's inventor, Auguste Piccard, and Lieut. Don Walsh, the Trieste took 4 hr. 48 min. to settle slowly down to the Pacific Ocean's bottom, landing gently on soft silt that billowed up and looked like dust clouds when the lights were turned on. When the clouds cleared, Piccard and Walsh could see living creatures that moved unbothered...
...effects of guns, liquor, and women appear in Casablanca without seeming to be the cliches. Maybe it is because Humphrey Bogart is holding both the guns and his liquor, and maybe it is because Ingrid Bergman is the woman. At any rate, Casablanca is outstanding. Few people wear a trench coat or a frown as well as Bogie and no one can rival Ingrid in looking wistful...
Final target of Trieste and her crew is the Marianas Trench, which runs east...
...geophysicists, the ocean trenches are some of the most interesting places on earth. A well-supported theory holds that the trenches are places where the earth's crust is being sucked slowly into the depths by currents in the plastic inner material. When Trieste has penetrated the Marianas Trench and studied its rugged bottom, her reports may explain the origin not only of the earth's ocean deeps but also of its mountains...