Word: shallowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...port, snapping her hawsers like rubber bands. Trying to keep her from capsizing, the Navy ordered holes cut in an empty water tank on the starboard side, to pump in water for balance. But early next morning, as the tide came in and lifted her heavy stern from the shallow river bottom, the Lafayette toppled, rolled over ignominiously on her side...
...extreme example was the deed of petite, Manila-bred Filipino Nurse Rebecca Salvación, who had to take cover in a shallow trench when her station was bombed. Other nurses were evacuated in ambulances. Somehow Nurse Salvación was left behind. So, too, was a U.S. Marine, wounded in the throat by a bomb fragment and calling for help from a nearby trench. Rebecca Salvación crawled from her trench, made it to a building, summoned an Army doctor, Captain Benjamin Kysor of Oswego, N.Y., to help...
Physically he is as tough as he is un handsome. From the top of his shaved head to the bottom of his splay-toed feet he is hard. His buttocks are big with marching. His arms are strong, and he can dig himself into a shallow trench quickly and neatly. His eyes are generally good, and there is no physical reason why his aim should not be clean...
...fine homes on the heights above the city, in beach shacks near Waikiki, in the congested district around the Punchbowl, assorted Japanese, Chinese, Portuguese, Filipinos, Hawaiians and kamaainas (long-settled whites) were taking their ease. In the shallow waters lapping Fort De Russy, where sentries walked post along a retaining wall, a few Japanese and Hawaiians waded about, looking for fish to spear. In Army posts all over Oahu, soldiers were dawdling into a typical idle Sunday. Aboard the ships of the Fleet at Pearl Harbor, life was going along at a saunter. Downtown nothing stirred save an occasional...
...fighting their way upstream, up rapids, over falls, around innumerable obstructions, until each found the stream where it was spawned, where now it would spawn and die. If you were lucky you could see a Chinook, the biggest salmon of them all, weighing maybe 50 lb., break through a shallow rapid like a torpedo. If you were still luckier you might catch one. Because the fish come up small streams, perhaps only six feet across, you had the feeling that the salmon were running right into your field, into your playground, even into your back yard. As soon as school...