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Forest service officials are also worried about ensuring that compacted soils along trails loosened, slit-trench latrines are buried and garbage is hauled out.
The Seattle Times 2011
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Fears grew this week that buildings in the city could collapse if a slit-trench caved in.
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Got told by a mormon the exact circle and location in hell I would be going, told him at least it has fu I'm a non-believer but I've always liked the aphorism 'There are no atheists in a slit-trench'.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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I'm a non-believer but I've always liked the aphorism 'There are no atheists in a slit-trench'.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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I'm a non-believer but I've always liked the aphorism 'There are no atheists in a slit-trench'.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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Fears grew this week that buildings in the city could collapse if a slit-trench caved in.
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I'm a non-believer but I've always liked the aphorism 'There are no atheists in a slit-trench'.
Army Rumour Service 2010
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He treats this once proud site like a dysentery sufferer in the woods treats a slit-trench latrine.
race42008.com 2009
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In wars of yore, the slit-trench was state-of-the art field sanitation, filled to the brim and then maybe backfilled; but today, when even losers are litigious, it's not a good idea to leave that kind of mess.
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In wars of yore, the slit-trench was state-of-the art field sanitation, filled to the brim and then maybe backfilled; but today, when even losers are litigious, it's not a good idea to leave that kind of mess.
TechNudge 2008
bilby commented on the word slit-trench
"My slit-trench was in the angle of a farm-hut wall and a raised bank. All day Jerry 155mm shells were passing over our positions.
'They're after the 25-pounders in the field behind us,' says Sgt. Ryan.
'Behind?' I said, turning yellow. 'Christ, we're far forward for heavies.'
'Forward?' he giggled. 'We had bloody Nebelwurfers in this field this afternoon.'
- Spike Milligan, 'Mussolini: My Part In His Downfall.'
April 18, 2009