Word: trenched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...glamorous image does bring in a lot of eager recruits, though. Reports Boston Private Detective A. Michael Pascal: "They come in expecting to be issued a trench coat, a badge and a .357 magnum. What we give them is a pencil, a notebook and an assignment...
...front, thinking of my family, scratching the names of my wife and son on the bottom of the trench I said, 'How is it possible that I, anti-patriot, anti-militarist, who acknowledged only the International, come to attacking my companions in misery and perhaps shall die for my enemies against my own cause and my own interests?'" --a French syndicalist, after the World War I mobilization...
After some soul searching, I discovered why Harvard was looking so simple-minded on the field. The man next to me in the trench coat was writing on a clip board. The paper had a letterhead. It said "The University of Massachusetts...
...year, Tokyoites have had still more reminders that they are, in effect, sitting on a volcano. Mount Asama, 85 miles northwest of Tokyo, literally blew its top in February. Three months later, there was an upheaval in the Pacific seabed that lifted part of the bottom of the Bonin Trench an astonishing 6,000 ft., forming a new volcano north of Iwo Jima. In June came a major quake in Hokkaido, though it caused no deaths...
...seem to counter the creed of the "now" generation in their fascination with the past. Some of the compulsion for archaeology, suggests Bryn Mawr Graduate Student Erik Nielson, is that "you can only learn so much from books. There comes a point when you have to kneel over a trench and handle an object that's fresh from the ground." Despite the long hours, backbreaking and often boring labor, an increasing number of students have been doing just that. Some of the more interesting summer digs...