Word: shallower
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Outside Yusufiyah, five members of the Republican Guard had dug in to face G.I.s moving north. As soon as U.S. warplanes circled overhead, says eyewitness Mashan Shareef, the soldiers lost heart and bolted from their positions, but all five were killed in the bombing. Local residents buried them in shallow graves and hung their dog tags from sticks thrust into the mounds to identify them for searching relatives...
...lead. Salsgiver beat out an infield grounder that Tigers’ second baseman Steve Young briefly bobbled to get on base, and junior Bryan Hale brought him home on a double that right fielder Andy Salini jogged beneath but seemed to misjudge. Hale scored when Dukovich singled to shallow center on a 1-2 count in the next...
...happened, the first issue of a new series about the lives of more contemporary young adults came across my desk at the same time as "Summer Job." It makes for a cruel comparison. (The author, who means well and is just starting out, shall be spared identification.) Full of shallow and spoiled characters who booze and screw, the Gen-Y book has as little point as they do. You feel kept at an arm's length either by its accuracy or its incompetence (depending on how cynical you are). Completely opposite to this, "Summer Job" pulls...
That didn’t happen—at least not right away. Christian lined a well-hit ball to shallow right, but freshman Lance Salsgiver made a spectacular catch while charging in and managed a relay throw to freshman Mike Dukovich at first that kept the lead run from scoring...
...shallow graves of Mohamed Sakran were discovered by chance. Files found in Baghdad's notorious Section 5 prison listed the names of executed prisoners and numbers of their graves. Notified by an inmates' group, families immediately traveled to the cemetery, 25 miles west of Baghdad in the city of Al Hawsa. What they found, tucked in a well-kept conventional cemetery, was a rectangular field twice the size of a gridiron. A cinderblock wall blocked off the space. High above it were watchtowers apparently manned by guards to keep out unauthorized visitors...