Word: shallower
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Blake, for days one of the most vocal of the agitators around Central High ("I advocate violence"), grabbed for a rifle, pulled a paratrooper to the ground with him. Another trooper reversed his rifle, smashed its butt against Blake's head. Blake, blood streaming from a shallow scalp wound, scuttled away, shouting to newsmen and photographers as he went: "Who knows the name of that lowlife s.o.b. who hit me?" A top sergeant ordered his men: "Keep those bayonets high-right at the base of the neck...
Little Rock grew by cotton culture and by steamboat glamour-creaking wharves piled high with cotton bales for loading on shallow-draft paddle-wheelers such as Reindeer, Cinderella and Spy-and Little Rock seceded along with Arkansas and the Old South from the Union in 1861. Two years later Little Rock was captured by the Union Army without a fight, set about treating the Union men courteously. And when the Confederacy and Reconstruction were done with, Little Rock grew-from 12,000 in 1870 to 26,000 in 1890 and 46,000 in 1910-and became a state-capital leader...
...symbol is all that Marie Antoinette ever was; and even if she had never squandered millions on jewelry, chateaux, make-believe villages and elaborate carnivals, the deluge would still have come, forced from below by sufferings as real and deep as her own pleasures were artificial and shallow...
...Panama Canal Zone, scene of modern medicine's victory over malaria, has reported 67 cases since June 1. Partly explained by a drought that has turned lakes into shallow, mosquito-breeding pud-dies, the outbreak is largely due to changes in control measures in surrounding Republic of Panama. ¶ Britain, which allows narcotics addicts to receive small maintenance doses legally and cheaply, reported only 333 known addicts. Medical professions supplied a whopping 30% of them: 77 doctors, 20 nurses, two dentists...
...government lifted leasehold restrictions on Peace River lands in 1947, McMahon snapped up an original 300,000 acres and started prospecting. The first two holes were dry. Then in 1952 at Fort St. John, 345 miles from Edmonton, his Pacific Petroleums drillers brought in a promising gas well at shallow depth, followed it with dozens more, the biggest producing 137 million cu. ft. of gas daily...