Word: shallowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Near dawn he reached the wood's edge, saw a German patrol. Surprised, he hid in the underbrush until the Nazis passed. Then, as the sun rose, he saw horror in the shallow valley sheltering the town. The town was Lidice, and Karl Horak saw it die (TIME, June 22-, 1942). Of Lidice's 1,200 human beings Horak, so far as he knew, was the only one who escaped the Nazis' savage reprisal after the killing of Gestapoman Reinhard Heydrich...
...medium-sized freighter whose bow gapes open like jaws to discharge cargo. Developed late in 1941, the vessel was a peculiarly tough problem in design, since it had to be capable of carrying and loading hundreds of tons of tanks, seaworthy enough to cross oceans under its own power, shallow-draft enough to put the tanks directly ashore. It carries a full operational crew and is usually commanded by a senior grade lieutenant, Navy or Coast Guard...
...many kinds of fog-dry, wet, sea, land, smog (smoky), black (sooty), ice, pea-soup (moderately smoky, yellowish, once thought peculiar to London)-most are not troublesome to flyers because they are shallow or ephemeral. But there is great danger in advection fogs, produced by the drifting of warm air over cold land or water or snow banks (common off Labrador): they are deep-sometimes thousands of feet-and treacherous...
...ship pers to make Port Cargill their rail-ship transfer point (WPB designated it the region's ore transfer point for war ship ping this spring, but retracted when Minneapolis and St. Paul objected). Cargill has long boosted river shipping, contended the big obstacle was not shallow channels, but lack of the proper boats. At war's end, Cargill, for the first time, will have an efficient, top-notch yard to rectify that...
Every 20 Minutes. Even in peacetime, on many occasions traffic would jam. Through three locks (the Weitzel has been too shallow to use since 1919) staggering tonnage totals flowed; in 1929 some 92,000,000 tons, more than through the Panama, Suez and Kiel canals combined. In the short season, nipped to eight months by ice, as many as 16,000 ships slid through the locks, one every 20 minutes...