Word: shallower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reader Parrish a dunce cap for shallow cynicism. The primary interests of the U. S. are things on which all citizens agree: national independence, a chance to live in peace and prosperity, above all, government of the people, by the people, for the people. More than a dozen nations have recently lost these things, each under somewhat different circumstances. TIME'S stand is clear: TIME is for serious study of the political and military weapons by which democracies are being overcome. TIME is against trusting blindness-that wishful refusal to believe that new dangers are real-which has kept...
...barrage net, which luckily enmeshed their pursuers. Dawn broke in time for them to see the Richelieu's grand finale. Seaplanes from the Hermes came skimming in and loosed five long-snouted sea torpedoes. Titanic explosions shook the ocean and the mighty Richelieu settled by the stern in shallow water, surrounded by a vast pool of oil. Destroyed was one more threat to Britain's sea rule, and into R. N.'s log went an exploit to rank with that of U. S. Captain Richmond Pearson Hobson, who in 1898 scuttled a blockship in Santiago Bay, Cuba...
...artillery-would have to go in surface transports. British mines threaten these, so before the parachutists take off Phase 2 of the German plan would be minesweeping. Several narrow channels through the minefields might be swept in one dark night. The Nazi minesweepers would be guarded by swift, shallow-draft motor torpedo boats. Light units of the British Fleet would face a test of vigilance and daring that night and the next dawn, when the transports and their German naval and air escorts set out on William the Conqueror's path...
...Bennett of Maine, defending title holder in the hammer throw who should break the meet record. Bennett will be prodded to a record smashing effort by such proven athletes as John McLaughry, son of the Brown football coach, Stan Johnson of Maine, Niles Perkins of Bowdoin, and Bill Shallow of Harvard...
...command all her forces there. The Dutch Navy-was still in the war, being mostly stationed in The Netherlands In dies. The non-surrender of Zeeland, land of shrimp-fishermen and antique churches, was important to Great B/itain since its deep channels are the only ones on the shallow, white-sand Dutch coast suitable for submarine bases. But by week's end this resistance, momentarily bolstered by Prince Bernhard's return, petered out as the Allies withdrew from the islands...