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In the news trenches, always he battled to be accurately first, ... Ed Turner was walking ethics.

George Bernard Shaw

You need the skilled guys and the players who can put the puck away, and we feel like we have some of those kids. At the same time, you have to win in the trenches and you do that with the big kids we're talking about.

Kevin Prendergast

Look around the league and look in the faces of other teams that are winning; the guys that have broken noses and stitches on their faces because they get in the tough areas and take a hit to make a play. It's time we started to get in the trenches, because we haven't for [36] games, which is unacceptable.

Brad Lukowich

It starts in the trenches, and if you can't control the line of scrimmage, it's going to be a long night. That it was for us.

Tom O'brien

A lot of them don't know how to go about starting up a summer food program for students, or how to save money. We want to help them. These are the people who are working in the trenches every day and we want to tell them that what they do matters.

Robert Bush

It's very likely that this game could be one in the trenches.

Dave Garza

I am in general a very pessimistic person with an optimistic, day-to-day take on things. The bare facts of life are utterly terrifying. And yet, one can laugh. Indeed, one has to laugh precisely because of the darkness: the nervous laughter of the trenches.

Alain De Botton

We were in that gray area in between. We weren't the ones that were out setting the absolute direction of the airline. We were like them, in the trenches, doing day-to-day work.

Tom Gates

These are good people to talk to. They are down there in the trenches and they deal with who lives there every day.

Tim Carter

He has to get down in the trenches and work for some of these candidates.

Quentin Kidd

We used bulldozers to dig deep trenches and stored the gasoline down there. Then we covered them over.

Paul Stone

It's a wicked bug, ... It's an environmental organism that's wherever the soldiers are -- in the water, in the trenches. It's able to survive literally anywhere -- in food, on human skin, and in the bowels and intestines of humans. And it has become highly antibiotic-resistant, with all sorts of enzymes that incapacitate antibiotics and a pumping mechanism that literally pumps out the medicine.

Philip Tierno

The goal is to simply give the governor and the commissioner of education an opportunity to have face-to-face conversations with teachers and higher education employees who are basically in the trenches every day.

Mark Gray

As a way to build relationships, trust and credibility with customers, if you talk about problems and how to solve them as opposed to products and what they can do, people are a lot more attentive to that. The best thing you can hope to aspire to in test and measurement when you are in the trenches enabling other people to succeed, is to be a trusted advisor.

Duane Sword

We have gotten close over the years. We've kind of been in the trenches together.

Phyllis Jackson

The possibility of you being able to successfully launder 50 million pounds in Britain is fairly minimal unless you literally break it up into trenches of 2,000, 3,000 or 5,000 or something like that.

Peter Lilley

We did pretty well in the trenches.

Steve Zeller

He's aware that games can be won or lost in the trenches. I've had the opportunity to coach guys that were big, but Sam has size, he's physical and I watched him pass protect. ... If a kid that size can do that, it means he's quick. He was just impressive.

Al Lang

But digging the soldiers out of the trenches, out of the mountains and out of the caves is going to be prolonged activity because it's very difficult.

Don Shepperd

It comes from the trenches we put across the faults to look at the time of past earthquakes. It comes from satellite-based measurements ... that tell us how fast the plates are moving.

David Schwartz

You have the elements of the wind and the sun and somehow not having a defined closed area effects it more than anything else. It is different playing in and out. Same thing with football teams, you think someone like Green Bay wants it 10 degrees below zero fighting it in the trenches, but you get that team indoors in perfect conditions, its a different story.

Billy Chadwick

I don't think we realized how far gone we were in people's eyes. We pretty much had to prove ourselves over again, from our fans to people in the music industry. It's been an uphill fight. Nobody handed anything to us on this record. It's been us just slugging it out in the trenches and playing shows and proving to people every day that this band is legit and we're not going away.

Jacoby Shaddix

I wish we had a better field today. Taconic played very well today, especially in the trenches. We were having trouble offensively. We played well defensively, but offensively we can't seem to get it going.

Fran Millard

I think it's a nice gesture on the part of Bishop Lori to recognize volunteers in the church. They've always had programs to recognize high profile people and this is a nice way to recognize the people in the trenches.

Michael Mclachlan

They're out of contact now; their cell phones may not be working there. When we get into the trenches, it is a real hardship situation. We may be sleeping under the stars the rest of the time for all we know.

Bill Pyle

All I'd heard for two months in the trenches was the hissing, cracking and whining of bullets in flight, machine-gun fire and distant German voices.

Alfred Anderson

There's a lot of game playing going on right now, ... The two parties are digging in the trenches, and digging in on their positions. The judge knows that Microsoft will appeal, and the tougher the penalties imposed on Microsoft by the judge, the more likely it is that the appeals court will modify them.

Ulric Weil

There was some big guys in there. Getting in the trenches trying to bang with them was tough. I knew right then that I probably wouldn't play.

Alfonso Smith

For a long time, I was just there. I didn't know how it was down in the trenches.

Robert Henderson

They are huge on the front, I mean they are big. I don't see any space in between their front four. I wish they would send a couple of those guys our way. We're really small on both sides of the trenches. You see that size and it's pretty intimidating. I think our skill guys can play with anyone. We suffer from a tremendous lack of size.

Kevin Rizer

All we know is that, at times, fighting the Russians, we had to remove the piles of enemy bodies from before our trenches, so as to get a clear field of fire against new waves of assault.

Paul Von Hindenburg

The play of our offensive line has been the secret to our success. These guys have been through the trenches together and have matured and developed into a solid group.

Bob Holmes

The flight controllers, the people who manned the trenches in mission control, these were kids. They were in their 20s and 30s. And they were controlling a moon mission.

Andrew Chaikin

She was more than just a colleague and a leader in the Democratic Party. She was a real friend. This was a huge loss for me, personally. She was the kind of person I respect the most because she was not always the one looking for the limelight. She was in the trenches, working everyday.

Guy Guzzone