Word: shallowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their launches, shouted to Captain Fazzi to abandon ship. "I have done my duty," puffed Captain Fazzi, his feet planted in the rising water. The Marines kept shouting to the sailors to jump, until somebody noticed that before opening the sea cocks the captain had moved his ship into shallow water and made a hawser fast to shore...
...train roared into the station. A woman screamed. The motorman threw on the brakes, but he knew he could not stop in time. Two men waiting for the train jumped down on the track, grabbed the unconscious man by his shoulders and feet and slung him under the shallow overhang of the platform. They crouched there with him, while three cars of the train ground past...
...weft which bound their interests together was the Plata network (see map) of rivers flowing across an area nearly half the size of continental U. S. The Plata itself is a muddy, shallow estuary funneling down from a 25-mile-wide neck above Buenos Aires to a 138-mile-wide mouth in the Atlantic. Into it flow the Uruguay and the Paraná-Paraguay rivers. The Uruguay cuts south from Brazil for 1,000 miles, separating the northern tongue of Argentina from Uruguay and Brazil. To the west is the 2,200-mile Paraná. Starting in the highlands...
...Italian fort on the Libyan littoral, the fleet submitted the place to a terrible shellacking from the sea, lazily drifting along the coast and lobbing hundreds of tons of steel into the enemy's back. For this purpose the monitor Terror, mounting 15-inch guns, and certain shallow-draught gunboats were brought all the way from the China station...
Last week Bengasi fell (see p. 36). With its fall the fleet obtained another shallow, sand-bottom harbor useful for light ships...