Word: shallowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...McCarthy comparison seemed not only deplorable, it was shallow ... A democracy is supposed to have room for citizens "arrogant" as hell, not overly circumspect about dinner companions, not averse to playing hide-and-seek with policemen. The military in a democracy does not, of course, put up with such peccadillos in its officers ... To which club do the scientists belong? There's the rub. If our brightest minds now are all "in the Army"-without benefit of uniforms-the police state already has conquered...
...Here We Are!" Back in the Permian (pre-dinosaur) period, 200 million years ago, the south central part of the U.S. and much of the present Gulf of Mexico was covered by a shallow sea, connected with the open ocean by an even shallower strait. The climate must have been hot and dry, and the sea evaporated rapidly, drawing fresh salt water in through the strait. Its brine became saturated and deposited crystalline salt, which eventually formed a bed thousands of feet thick...
...unfortunate that it takes a constitutional crisis to alert conservatives to a moral issue. Conservative morality, economy-minded as it is, is not so much wrong as it is porous and shallow. Merit is figured in terms of loss or gain. So, mink coats, a legitimate political issue, is raised as a moral issue, an oblique one when compared to a basic moral issue such as the violation of a Truman order protecting FBI loyalty files from unauthorized persons as McCarthy. When a fundamental moral issue as McCarthyism arises, it is ignored. No one, as yet, has measured the loss...
...empire, nevertheless, was held together by seaborne commercial and naval power. Their predecessors-the Greeks. Phoenicians and Cretans-went down to the sea by preference. For thousands of years their galleys and potbellied cargo ships plied the Mediterranean, generally sticking close to the shore, where they often sank in shallow water. The wrecks lie there still, while bright fish swim around their leaden anchors and mollusks drill holes in marble columns packed into their holds...
...Nightingale started planting vegetables on arid land and irrigating them from shallow wells whose water carried 1,620 parts of salt per million. To his surprise, a long list of test crops- cucumbers, carrots, lima beans, broccoli, corn, cabbage, etc.- seemed to grow better than with purer water. On another test plot, he irrigated alfalfa and forage grasses with water containing 4,100 parts per million of salt. The crops grew vigorously...