Word: trenched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Navy, ever more sophisticated, has developed something called the DSRV, capable of glug-glugging down to distressed subs, latching onto their escape hatches and lifting sailors to the surface. This time, though, the U.S.S. Neptune is lying in a deep ocean trench, subject to slides of rock and silt from farther up this underwater canyon. These slides 1) cover up the escape hatch and 2) keep shoving Neptune over to an angle where the DSRV can't latch onto that hatch. The screen writers must resort to their imaginations, concocting an experimental two-man sub that can clear...
...play on jurors' emotions to win unreasonable awards. The lawyers meanwhile paint insurance companies as profit-hungry and indifferent to the welfare of victims. Says Duane Gingerich of The Research Group Inc., a national legal analysis firm: "The enmity between insurers and trial lawyers is deteriorating into trench warfare...
Attired in a poorly fitting trench coat and bright red sneakers, the glazy-eyed miner presents us with an object for our compassion as well as our amusement; his sphinx-like expression never once breaks into an unprofessional grin, unlike his colleagues in the Monty Python group during some of their other skits...
Public acts fall into several categories: 1) the tragic dullness of missed opportunity-for example, British and German general staffs were mired for years in the Western Front's stalemate of trench warfare; 2) the inconclusive-Wallace Warfield Simpson separated Edward VIII from his crown, but the event belonged more to the history of celebrity than to that of power; 3) magnificent failure-Imre Nagy, for example, in 1956 tried to withdraw Hungary from the Warsaw Pact and then discovered the brutal insistence of things in the Soviet tanks that arrived to iron out his impulse; 4) the satanic...
...whole truth. No matter what one may say against the continual voyeurism of photography, the likelihood is that it played as great a role in finishing the Viet Nam War as the printed word did. (One main reason why civilians in England could tolerate the idea of trench warfare for so long, after 1916. was that they had extremely few photographs of it and so an insufficient sense of outrage...