Word: shallowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...yelled to Root, Doolen and Robinson and rushed for a shallow ditch 50 yards away. The fighters roared across, pulled up and then turned on our ship. They spattered bullets across the fuselage and wings, then started a little fire on the left side...
...Honor, is the most notable sequence: Filmed on the scene of the original battle, it is made vivid and real by the brilliance of technicolor which gives breath-taking color to the outdoor scenes. Charging from either end of a gorge, the soldiers and Indians meet in the shallow water of the stream bed. The battle which ensues is terrific in its ferocity. So much water is splashed that the lens of the camera gets wet--it really does--you can see the drops running down the glass...
...enemy defenses on Perekop ("Cross-Ditch"), the six-mile-wide northern corridor into the Crimea. One by one, Red scouts mapped the German fire points : 200 in the first line, more in the rear. Other units made ready to cross the Sivash (also called the Putrid Sea), the stagnant, shallow western corner of the Azov Sea. Then the commander, rotund General Feodor Tolbukhin, expert horseman and veteran of Stalingrad, waited...
Paying Off. The results of this campaign are hard to gauge exactly, but they have begun to show. On the perimeter of her slowly diminishing empire, Japan nowadays rarely dares use freighters for supply (small barges, too shallow to torpedo, have to do most of the work...
Johnstown rebuilt its steel plants and homes, but failed to undertake flood control. The town was very vulnerable to floods because of 1) heavy rainfall (47.5 in. a year, 12 in. more than in Pittsburgh, 58 miles away), and 2) narrow, shallow river channels that did not carry off the water fast enough. When, on March 17, 1936, a great flood struck again, destroying $40,000,000 of Johnstown property, the town's 67,000 citizens as one man asked the U.S. for help...