Buried about a foot deep, hundreds of Germans and French lied in the trench since last October. Mud was my best friend, and sleep was interrupted by the booming of German shells. There was infection everywhere. Men were blown or shot to pieces, and their bodily fluids fed the rats. ...
An acute infectious disease characterized by chills and fever, caused by the bacteriumBartonella quintanaand transmitted by body lice. [From its occurrence among soldiers in trenches.] American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcour...
Starting with trench foot, trench foot was a condition caused by the water in the trenches. This happened because the poorly built trenches caused water to stay in the area.The water started to get muddy and since they had no bathroom, the area would just flood with muck. As you would ...
1. A deep furrow or ditch. 2. A long narrow ditch embanked with its own soil and used for concealment and protection in warfare. 3. A long, steep-sided valley on the ocean floor. v. trenched, trench·ing, trench·es v.tr. 1. To dig or make a trench or trenches in (land or...
Because officers purchased their wristwatches as part of their kit, they did not pass through the army stores to be officially issued and therefore were not stamped with the pheon, the crow's foot or broad arrow that has denoted British military property since the fourteenth century. Wrist...
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2. Pink and blue areas at the center show uplifted sections in the hanging wall and footwall, respectively. Those at the western end represent horizontal displacement to compensate for the corresponding uplifted masses. Full size image Thrust geometry and displacement Based on the pressure sensor ...
There is little or no intervening turbidite fill, but small lenses interpreted as debris deposits occur at the foot of parts of the inner slope that lack basins or benches which elsewhere obstruct downslope sediment transport. The oceanic slope is severely broken by parallel but slightly sinuous ...
Trench foot, they called it. Unless we could dry our feet, our feet began to rot. Making up the majority of our diets were stale bread. With no appetite, I starved for most days. And containing no proper washrooms, we had areas in the trench where we relieved ourselves. Oh how the...
5629230Semiconductor processing method of forming field oxide regions on a semiconductor substrate utilizing a laterally outward projecting foot portion1997-05-13Fazan et al.438/446 5596213Shallow trench source EPROM cell1997-01-21Lee257/316 5573837Masking layer having narrow isolated spacings and the me...