Word: trenched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...continue upward to 20 feet at Alewife. Much of the excavation will be what is known in the trade as a "bored tunnel"--the digging proceeds entirely underground, with access through several shafts along the way. Toward Alewife, construction will be of the "cut-and-cover" variety, although the trench may be temporarily covered to permit street traffic to pass unhindered...
...trench Moir found a dozen pieces of ceramic and glass dating from the colonial era. He returned on Monday and found 20 more artifacts...
...Practically, the necktie is as supererogatory as those little belts and buckles that used to adorn the backs of men's trousers. The tie has no function except to clean eyeglasses, and even that it does badly. It makes as much sense as the grenade loops on a trench coat, or perhaps even less, since the man in the trench coat can at least carry grenades if he wishes...
Even those who had never read Camus became familiar with the chain-smoking figure in a trench coat, fatefully evocative of Bogart and Yves Montand. Much was made of his celebrated statement that in a purposeless world the only vital question was one of suicide. His novels The Stranger and The Fall describe souls out of touch with a moral landscape; The Plague watches townspeople succumb to a literal and spiritual disease. It is small wonder that at his death Camus seemed the spokesman of despairing existentialism, a cinematic figure as doom-ridden as any of his characters...
...Payloaders. A witness remembers that another tractor truck simply hooked on to the trailer and drove it away. The driver seemed to know exactly what he was doing and aroused no suspicion. Nor was it the company's first experience. A year ago, two J.I. Case backhoes (trench diggers), worth $18,000 each, were stolen the same...