Word: shallowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...immediate, feverish question was: how soon could the port be used to supply Eisenhower's waiting armies? The answer was that shallow-draft, small and medium-sized vessels up to perhaps 15,000 tons could probably come in as soon as the river channel was cleared of mines, which should not take more than a week; for larger ships, some dredging will be necessary. In peacetime, the silty channel had to be dredged every day in order to get larger ships (up to 30,000 tons) to Antwerp's 24 docks and 28½ miles of quay front...
...Saipan scrawny, hungry Jap civilians were still coming out of caves where they had hidden since the battle began last June. Upon surrendering they are placed in a two-square-mile compound named "Camp Susupe" (after the nearby shallow lake), which now shelters 18,000 - 13,000 Japs, the rest Christian Chamorros, Koreans and Kanakas...
...Sicilian needed to be told that his three-cornered Trinacria, 75 miles from Africa across the shallow Straits of Pantelleria, and two miles from Europe across the deep Straits of Messina, possessed strategic significance.* He remembered too well the prewar days when the French in Tunis, the British in nearby Malta and the Italians in Sicily had eyed each other warily while feverishly building forts and airfields. Too recently had he watched Sicily-based Stukas cut at will the lifeline of the British Empire as it curved past Sicily on its way to Suez. Control of Sicily, for a nation...
Just 100 yards from the outskirts of Sainte Germaine the Germans saw us and walloped a mighty big shell over at us. From the cover of a friendly but too shallow ditch we sat the next half-hour...
...Tyrrhenian coast the shallow port of Piombino was taken; less than a week later Cecina, 25 miles farther north, was captured. Leghorn was only 17 miles beyond. Siena, a medieval jewel, which had been carefully spared Allied artillery fire, fell virtually unharmed to French and Americans...