Word: shallowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next day the marines edged up to the town, which is bisected by the shallow, blue Hongchon River. There was no small-arms fire from the enemy, but at least three Communist field pieces, one far up a valley to the east, had the area under fire. One company of marines was ferried across the shallow river on tanks. While this was going on, the Red guns got down to business...
...girl who is seduced. Joyner shows a fine touch in portraying the girl's dulled, slowed-down feelings, and manages, too, to catch the quite desperation of the parents weighed down by the burden and shame of such a daughter. It is an excellent story, simple and yet not shallow...
...compartments are too shallow. My salad was placed in one compartment and ended up in three. The potato spewed over into the central milk-glass division, and the gravy required a skilled juggling act to keep it from flowing over the side. Also there was insufficient height in the ridges to aid in getting the last mouthfuls of applesauce on the spoon (the same will certainly hold true for peas, stewed tomatoes...
...When the shelling lifted, they went back to their small arms. Sergeant Thomas Toolen pointed to a Red pillbox nestled close by the graves. "See it?" he asked then "Hey, Graham, give him a couple of rounds!" Pfc. Donald Graham fired a short burst from his BAR across the shallow valley into the Communist emplacements. A man started from the pillboxes and dived into a nearby hole...
...about photographing the war by starting with the jumble of ships at the British harbor base of Cossack Bay, Balaklava. venton's slow, bulky camera could catch no British armies in action, but it could catch such mood shots as "A Quiet Day in the Mortar Battery," the shallow "Valley of Death," littered with cannonballs after the Charge of the Light Brigade, and the threatening magnificence of the proud syth Regiment drawn up on parade with its tents in the background. In the leisurely pace of the war, commanders had plenty of time to put up with Fenton...