Word: shallowing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From a graveyard at the fringe of the battlefield, a Viet Cong heavy machine gun knocked out an APC. But supported by government air force planes, which swept over the Red positions in screaming, shallow dives firing rockets and dropping napalm, the reinforcements rolled straight onto the Reds, mashing scores of the Communist troops into the stinking paddy mud with their huge steel treads. At last the Reds broke and ran, leaving behind 83 dead...
...provinces baffle foreigners because so many of them sound alike (Honan, Hunan; Kiangsu, Kiangsi; Shansi, Shensi). Most typical of the northern provinces is perhaps Hopeh, which contains the capital city of Peking. From its rugged border with Manchuria, the province runs down in a shelving plain to the shallow Gulf of Chihli. Very few eminent Communists come from Hopeh or its neighboring province of Shansi, which is noted for sacred mountains and such spectacular cave temples as Yun Kang, where a mile-long cliff face has been chiseled into thousands of Buddhist images. Shensi is reverenced as the birthplace...
...pair of the birds, brought them back to the University of Georgia campus, and studied the problem with the help of Professor L. J. Peacock. One stork was fitted out with segments of a blackened pingpong ball over each eye, and both birds were turned loose in a shallow pool filled with minnows. The blinkered stork sloshed ahead, snapping up fish as quickly as its wide-eyed mate. Vision, the two zoologists explained in the British magazine Nature, has no part in the wood stork's fishing technique. The bird's beak is something like a repeating mouse...
...shallow edges, the long grasses, we who walk...
...shallow edges, our long grasses...