| Areas within the trenches, known as dugouts, were furnished with a table and chairs and a few wire-mesh bunks for resting. |
| Most of the crowd had flooded the exits now, with only a handful of amazed onlookers diving for cover under the dugouts. |
| With much of the ground below sea level, there was a constant problem with the water table filling trenches and dugouts with water. |
| One sports talk show after another was lined up in front of the dugouts, taking live shots of the field before the big game. |
| The rain not only flooded the dugouts, it turned the trenches into mud holes. |
| They moved from the safety of their dugouts and manned their machine guns to face the British and French. |
