Word: shallowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moves away from the equator, it passes points on the earth's surface that are moving less & less rapidly toward the east in the earth's rotation. The tidal range of Korea's western coast is further increased because the incoming water is forced into narrow, shallow channels and heaped up there. Inchon, which lies on the western coast of the peninsula about 20 miles up a narrow channel, has an average tidal range in the time of the new and full moon of about 27 ft. On Sept. 15 the tide at Inchon rose...
...Leap. The mammoth brown bear that rose up from the dead was the last one Hunter Hasselborg ever hunted professionally. To escape, he made "a sailing leap, the kind a frantic quarterback makes when the goal line and winning touchdown are almost his," and landed face-down in a shallow gulley. While the bear clawed his back to ribbons and chewed away the muscles in his shoulder, Hasselborg hugged the earth, finally blacked out. Later he awoke to find the bear gone. It took hours to get himself into his homemade boat, and it was two days before...
...remaining airfields in the beachhead was at Taegu-and Taegu itself was gravely threatened. On the central front, it seemed as hard to prevent the Reds from crossing the Naktong as to stop rats from boarding a moored ship. In some places, the sluggish green water was shallow enough to wade across. At night, free from Allied air attack, the North Koreans put tanks across on barges and hastily built log and stone causeways, whose top surfaces were a foot under water and hard to see from the air. Once, in full daylight, under U.S. artillery fire, they put armor...
...drove jeeps along the sandy river flats to ferrying points on the Han River several miles upstream from the shattered bridge. There beetle-like rowboats jammed to the gunwales with refugees were plying back & forth across the broad, shallow stream...
...generations by swinging away from "the short-sighted cult of utilitarian studies" and back towards the humanities with their "reverence for integrity, not because it's fashionable but because it's true." Such a reverence "would work a moral revolution deeper and more helpful than all the shallow artistic and political and economic revolts of our panting apostles of progress. It would be a moral revolution against that inner smirk which prefers cleverness to wisdom...