Word: trenched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rate of movement into the trenches is almost imperceptible-no more than an inch or so a year. But Geophysicist Robert C. Bostrom and Civil Engineer Mehmet A. Sherif think that some of the more conveniently located trenches could be used as efficient geophysical garbage dumps. The trick, they explain in Nature, would be to dump packaged waste into the sea off the mouths of fast-flowing rivers, which annually wash vast amounts of mud into continental trench areas. Though the garbage would not be drawn far into the earth for many years, it would soon be buried so deep...
...sociology" at the Sorbonne, Jones' accounts of riots and forums are centered about the Cinema Committee. I don't know how verite his depiction is: it certainly does not jive with the strike film that was actually produced. And it is doubtful that anyone agreed to let a trench-coated Hollywoodian develop a love-storyline to attract international filmgoers (one which is, supposedly, scrapped...
...innovations were basic to the wardrobes of generations of women: jersey suits and dresses, the draped turban, the chemise, pleated skirts, the jumper, turtleneck sweaters, the cardigan suit, the blazer, the little black dress, the sling pump, strapless dresses, the trench coat. Sometimes, the determining factor was practicality: Chanel wore bell-bottom trousers in Venice, the better to climb in and out of gondolas, and started the pants revolution. Sometimes, it was purely accidental: after singeing her hair, she cut it off completely, made an appearance at the Paris Opera, and started the craze for bobbed hair. But always...
Sajer crams the reader into a truck next to a living corpse with his head half blown off. refusing to die. He makes him hold down a man's leg while a surgeon saws it off. He forces him to wait in a trench while waves of Russians charge, shouting "Ourrah!" until fear "reduced every conviction to nothing...
...rest his case quickly. At least, Army lawyers at the Pentagon think so. They point out that the charge against Mitchell is "assault with intent to murder." Says one Army officer: "All Swan has to prove is that Mitchell pulled the trigger and that there were people in the trench, and he's done that already. Why should he go on and confuse the point with fragmentary evidence? Besides, he has those extra seven witnesses in reserve for rebuttal...