Word: shallowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day she died and Vladimir dug her a shallow grave with a pocketknife. Her service revolver he took as a souvenir. Militsa is now a ward of Marshal Tito...
...hole. The bulldozer pushed some more dirt over them and that was all there was to it (until burial parties got around later to a formal funeral). Lines of medical corpsmen were bringing the bodies in as fast as they could find stretchers and wade into the shallow water...
...They lifted the coffin over the grave hole while Grandpa pulled the flag from over the coffin. They lowered Uncle Kim down into the mountain earth to the bottom of his shallow grave. . . . Now the great procession of people moved down the mountain faster than they had climbed...
...something was happening. The early waves were not hitting the beach as they should. A control boat sped up and its officer shouted : "You'll have to go in right away as soon as I can get a boat for you. The shell around the island is too shallow to take the Higgins boats." The news was chilling. It meant something dimly foreseen but hardly expected: the shallow coral reef around Betio would bar landing save by special small, steel-plated boats, of which there were all too few, or by wading...
...single catch taken annually from the teeming Great Lakes waters, which are the biggest single source of fresh-water fish in America. This year, despite the manpower shortage and a run almost two weeks late in starting, lake fishermen hope to lift 17 to 19 million Ib. from the shallow inshore waters where the herring come in to spawn. Such a catch, well under 1940's 22,480,000 Ib., would be worth more than $600,000 these days, well over...