Word: shallow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boeing 707 Astrojet came down in heavy fog yesterday afternoon, overshot the runway and skidded into shallow water. Calm action by the plane's crew and the rapid appearances of rescue boats enabled everyone aboard to reach safety...
...recoiled from the first experience of its immensity and climate: January temperatures plummet to 100° below, while August temperatures soar to 120° above. Nature shaped the land with a grim hand. In prehistoric times, Siberia was a vast ocean, and its topography still resembles that of a shallow sea bottom, raised at the edges by a saucer-rim of mountains, with few barriers against wind or sun. The flat landscape is banded by four distinct regions-the icy northern shelf of the tundra, where nothing grows except moss, lichen and dwarf shrub; the dense forest zone...
Claudelle Inglish (Warners) is a common Dixie doxy. She starts out poor but honest, the daughter (Diane McBain) of a tenant farmer (Arthur Kennedy) in the Deep (read shallow) South. Jilted by the boy she loves, the girl decides to get even. She paints her lips, she flips her hips. For miles around, the gay young devils (and some not so young) answer this summons from one of hell's belles. They bring her presents. She pays off. Her mother (Constance Ford), fearing that the poor child will come a-sharecropper, advises her to marry a rich man (Claude...
...Sudden death," even from a massive heart attack or in shock on the operating table, is not really sudden. After the heart stops, there may be a few last, shallow breaths. The brain lives on for five or six minutes, and perhaps longer under some conditions. In Moscow last week, at the Fifth International Congress on Biochemistry, Soviet investigators reported new findings about the dying brain, and new means of bringing the "dead" back to life...
Most of today's countless novels about Africa offer a paraphrase of headlines, a splash of truculent social justice, and a dubbed-in romance. To see how shallow they can be, one must compare them with the late Joyce Gary's African books, which may not seem attuned to the latest news, but which even today make the news more intelligible. Gary fought in the Nigeria Regiment in World War I, later served as a magistrate dealing with the everyday crises of tribal life. Out of this experience came Mister Johnson (published in 1939), by all odds...