Word: shallowing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...party was outdoors, beside the Steers's swimming pool. While Caroline's nurse was changing, the other nurses and mothers helped Ivan's guests into their bathing suits; Caroline got suited up faster than anyone else. She slipped into the pool at the shallow end, grabbed a kiddie-sized surfboard and began to paddle...
Infantry of the Mind. The trouble with the metaphysics of chance is that it is too shallow for a true tragic destiny. Unlike the Greek and Elizabethan heroes, the Hemingway hero does not understand his fate. It's simply a dirty trick...
...book, Taylor told how he would change the game. He urged that NATO ground forces be built up and made strong enough to deter a Soviet army attack. He argued that shallow "tripwire" forces might actually become a liability, since they could get entangled with an enemy to the point that the U.S. would be unable to use nuclear weapons for fear of killing its own troops. He advocated a "limited-war headquarters" that would cut across service lines. Wrote he: "There is no single headquarters anywhere which supervises the planning for overseas movements or verifies readiness for movement...
...Very Bold." Clomping around in green fatigues and combat boots, Castro pointed out the sunken invasion ship Houston, its hull sticking out from the shallow water. He expertly described the rebel landing, his own counterattack...
Beyond All Isms. A heavy interplay of curious coincidences and a shallow depiction of character place this book with Silone 's frailer fiction. However, the fact that the main sacrificial act in the novel is performed by a Fascist is significant as well as startling. It marks how much the world and Silone have changed from the 1930s, when left-v.-right politics was not only the ruling international passion but a kind of immutable moral law. The Fox and the Camellias is a book beyond Fascism, Communism, socialism or even humanism. It is a Christian statement, arguing essentially...