Word: shallower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with heavily armed soldiers. He would escort us to the command post of Lieut. General Li Mi, commander of the Thirteenth Army Group. He pointed north toward a hill rising like the hump of a razorback hog out of the fields. The truck wallowed off the road through a shallow ditch and followed a telephone wire stretched across the parched, lumpy land, already sown with winter wheat...
...Servile and impertinent," Lord Macaulay had called him, "shallow and pedantic, a bigot and a sot, bloated with family pride, a talebearer, an eavesdropper, a common butt in the taverns of London." That, for several generations of scholars, was the final verdict on James Boswell. The 18th Century Scotsman was regarded as little more than a toady and a drunken rogue, whose one claim to fame was his great and somehow accidental Life of Samuel Johnson. And many credited the book's virtues to the subject rather than the biographer...
...gloomy, Gothic grandeur of Westminster Abbey, Britain's most hallowed shrine, Winston Churchill and Clement Attlee stepped up to a simple wrought-iron stand and drew back an American flag from a shallow niche beside the west door. They uncovered a three-foot-high marble tablet, crowned with an American eagle and inscribed...
...seconds later George Emmons, a borrowed Varsity end, seized an intended Brown screen pass and scooted 40 yards before being halted on the ten. Three plays worked the ball to the two and on fourth down wingback Rick Hudner scored on a shallow reverse...
Agents of the American farmers quietly moved around among the braceros, passing the word that anyone who wanted to work could just go to a shallow place in the river and wade across. Trucks would be waiting, nobody would get in trouble, the U.S. authorities would understand...