Word: trenches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...railroad history. Within its short 2.2 miles, contractors burrowed under or over six other rapid transit tunnels, had to hold up the heavy overhead Sixth Avenue El (since torn down) and most of the buildings along the route with piles driven down to bed rock. The cut & cover method (trench-like excavation covered with wooden flooring) necessitated digging through a tangle of telephone cables, power lines, water mains, gas pipes, pneumatic mail tubes, sewer pipes, steam mains, telegraph wires, police and fire alarm lines, conduits for refrigerator brine, burglar alarm wires, quotation ticker lines, traffic signal wires. Without suspending these...
Into the bleak courtyard of the gloomy Jihlava fortress prison last week broke armed legionnaires of the green-shirted, Fascist, anti-Semitic Iron Guard. From the prison cells they dragged 64 Carolists, lined them up in front of a long trench from whose top they had just ripped a concrete slab. In the frosty dawn they opened fire, watched the bodies crumple to earth...
Theirs was a mission of revenge. From the trench they had removed the bodies of Iron Guard Founder Corneliu Zelea Codreanu and 13 other Guardists, executed on the same spot just three days less than two years before. His body eaten by acid, Codreanu was identified by the three crosses he had worn around his neck, a wedding ring and a small ikon...
...There is no doubt of its being a hard war. Two hundred lives are lost daily in the bombing raids and 300 people are injured. . . . There has never yet been a nation as much at war as England is today. The whole country is a huge trench...
...Washington correspondents next day sent Newshawk Murphy a trench helmet, a pair of football shoulder pads. *The "midstream" line, most effective of all Willkie cracks, became so familiar to correspondents that they wrote a song called Down...