Word: shallowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...real kindness in Negroes, how unstable was our tenderness, how lacking in genuine passion we were, how void of great hope, how timid our joy, how bare our traditions, how hollow our memories, how lacking we were in those intangible sentiments that bind man to man, and how shallow was even our despair. After I had learned other ways of life I used to brood upon the unconscious irony of those who felt that Negroes led so passional an existence! . . . Whenever I thought of the essential bleakness of black life in America, I knew that Negroes had never been allowed...
Riding into the city in Mao's car, Pat Hurley unlimbered some of his best anecdotes. Colonel Barrett translated with idiomatic gusto. As the car forded the shallow Yen River, General Hurley cracked: "It reminds me of my old home in Oklahoma. There you could tell when a school of fish was swimming upriver by the cloud of dust it raised...
...Lupe Velez she led a strange and unfettered existence-even for Hollywood. She was very young when she became famous. Her teen-age whims and appetites, her shallow fits of rage and delight remained unchanged. She loaded herself with jewelry. She delighted in entering nightclubs with a spurious dignity. She also delighted in tantrums during which she spat oaths like an angry cat. She loved to go to prizefights, where she screamed advice to the boxers...
Hardly more than a creek in summer, the Roer was now swollen by rain. The Germans increased the flood by blowing dams and opening sluice gates, until the shallow brown water in one place spread almost a mile across the plain. Lieut. General William ("Texas Bill") Simpson's Ninth Army inched painfully forward until it held a 20-mile stretch on the west bank. On his right, Courtney Hodges' First Army had to cross a smaller stream, the Inde, before it could come up to the Roer. The Germans fought like wild men for the Inde also. Driven...
...When the West Virginia was raised from the shallow water into which she sank, a record of tragedy and horror was chalked on one of her bulkheads. The record showed that three men who had been trapped in a watertight compartment had lived from that Sunday morning until the day before Christmas...