Word: shallowing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Safe Boast. Where the water is shallow, the engineers built some twelve miles of trestle. Over two minor channels they flung bridges. But the Navy would not accept bridges over the major ship channels, on the reasonable military grounds that they might be bombed in case of war and block the channels. To meet this objection the authority came up with a unique solution. They would build tunnels instead. But tunnels have to start from dry land. So the authority built four islands on either side of the major channels...
...political affiliations but because Manuel Fernandez Montesinos, the Socialist mayor of Granada, was his brother-in-law. His death was a reminder that in the Spain of the time, virtually any consideration could expose a man to a firing squad from either side. Lorca was buried in a shallow, unmarked grave on a hillside beside several thousand other victims of the Falangist terror. He had just turned...
Chasan, now executive editor of this journal, is shallow and occasionally inaccurate, but he makes one good point. Chasan first presents a confusing and unconvincing philosophical discussion of his relation to the American Negro. He then abandons that tack and says that his growing antipathy to the Negro movement springs from the leadership's ignorance of "a responsibility of their own." He says the leadership has failed to bring about internal changes in the Negro community necessary for effective integration. "First," he writes, "there must be leaders who will encourage, even demand, constructive attitudes and actions completely apart from demonstrations...
Racing Rupture. Such shallow earthquakes, which are apt to be the most violent and do the most damage, are usually caused by sections of the earth's crust slipping past each other along great cracks called faults. Most of the time, a fault is motionless, its two rock faces pressed tightly together, cemented, perhaps, by chemical action. During these quiet periods, tension builds up along the fault. If the fault finally yields at one point, the rupture races along it at several miles per second. Hundreds of miles of rock relax like a broken spring, releasing the gigantic energy...
...Billy Potts owned a tavern in Ford's Ferry, Ky. Its floor was covered with bloodstains; outside, the grounds were filled with shallow graves. Travelers who stayed overnight could not depend on getting up again next morning. Billy's son, a chip off the old block, was caught robbing by two farmers, was forced to leave the state. Years later he returned with a hefty bankroll and a beard. He decided to surprise the folks by not letting on who he was. Not recognizing him, Daddy cheerfully sank a knife into his back, fleeced him, and went...