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City workers using bulldozers dug a makeshift trench next to the car in an attempt to drain the liquid, which mixed with the moisture in the air to form an acrid, choking...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Toxic Fog Drifts Over Area | 4/4/1980 | See Source »

Three bulldozers worked to dig a drainage trench in the ground next to the damaged...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Toxic Fog Drifts Over Area | 4/4/1980 | See Source »

...myth he attempts to rescue the generation of 1914 from is the myth of Pound's "botched civilization," and the devastation of trench warfare in Erich Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front. It is also the personal devastation and drunkenness of Jake Barnes in A Farewell to Arms...

Author: By Esme C. Murphy, | Title: Lost Generation | 1/16/1980 | See Source »

...most likely plan now is some form of trenches, in which the MX can be moved around by rail. Each trench, about 20 miles long, might be "zippered" shut, so that it could be uncovered occasionally for Soviet verifiers. MX verification is imperative for the future of SALT, since any system that frustrated verification could presumably be duplicated by the Soviets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Movable Beast | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

Listen, kid, and listen good. The joker in the trench coat is not the real McCoy, but an actor gent from New York. Goes by the name of Sacchi, Robert Sacchi, and he's making a flick in L.A. called The Man with Bogart 's Face. It's all about this guy who takes the name of Sam Marlowe (clever, huh?), gets his puss fixed to look like the one and only, and becomes a private dick in Hollywood. Hires a secretary who could stop traffic on Sunset but has the brains of a flea, tangles with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 11, 1979 | 6/11/1979 | See Source »

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