Word: shallower
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Instead, the bus rammed the wrecker, knocked it 60 ft. The bus itself lurched, swayed, tipped for a moment at the top of the embankment, then slithered through a grove of willow trees into the river. It hung for agonizing minutes in 3 ft. of water-long enough and shallow enough for 13-year-old Bill Leedy to kick open the rear emergency door, push smaller children out, then escape himself. Other passengers frantically rolled down windows and crawled out. Altogether 20 children got free before Big Sandy's heavy current swept the bus like a little log into...
...seems unlikely that Dartmouth taught him more than the forensic arts and the techniques of making propaganda plausible. His education never sent him to the sources he quotes, but left him with interpreters of dubious significance. His anthropology is outdated, his authorities are one-sided, his learning is shallow...
...wire and sat down on the rocks to wait. Ivica grew drowsy in the warm sun, looped the wire around his leg so that the eel's first tug would awaken him. That evening he did not return home. Ivica's sons found him, floating dead, in shallow water near the reef. The steel line was looped tightly around his leg. On the other end of the line was the eel, a 10-ft.-long, 300-lb. giant - the biggest ever caught in the Adriatic Sea with hook and line...
What is particularly amazing is this film's ability to create an authentic empathy for shallow flag-waving, and if we all know in our hearts that war is not glorious, and the Russians must know this most of all after Stalingrad, the vision of national and violent heroism still comes alive and intoxicating for the moment, even transplanted out of the culture that it speaks...
...that anachronistic imp," he smiled, giving me the same amused look he'd accorded the mention of Billy Graham. "Superficial, smart-aleck, shallow. And outdated. Agnostics are eighteenth century...