Word: shallowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...toward the earth. Kittinger could not see the surface that he might hit, so airplane pilots circling below him talked him down, telling him when to drop a little ballast to keep in the air until he had cleared all dangerous obstacles. At last the gondola settled into the shallow water of Indian Creek 80 miles from its take-off place. Colonel Stapp jumped out of his helicopter and unlatched the gondola's cover. Kittinger stepped out grinning. "Not a red hair of his head," said Stapp, "had turned grey...
...shipping last week. It set off a $23 million project that will deepen Amherstburg Channel in the Detroit River near Lake Erie to a minimum depth of 27 ft. (from 21 ft.), enable the waterway to take deep-draft ocean-going ships of up to 10,000 tons and shallow-draft lake ships of 25,000 tons- almost double the present capacity. This is the first part of a five-year dredging program to open the upper Midwest to the globe-girdling ships that will use the new St. Lawrence Seaway. Said Army Secretary Wilber M. Brucker: "The final assault...
...rushing at breakneck speed through some narrow gorge, now cascading in a sheer drop of 350 ft. or more to the level below as does the Zambezi at Victoria Falls, now widening their banks to flow in lazy indolence over the flat plateau in depths too shallow for navigation...
Hemingway is not marvelously adaptable to the screen because his writing leaves a great deal to the imagination, and when poorly acted seems quite shallow. But his moving novel about Loyalist cloak-and-dagger activity in the Spanish Civil War is turned into a second rate horse-opera in this version. Nothing is missing, from the hero's inevitable "Well, I never had much time for women" to snipers tumbling from pinnacles by the dozen...
...mentioned six values of our culture that produce shallow art. The first is the concept of freedom, which sometimes means "the only ingredient left in art besides paint, is freedom...