Word: shallowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They are either glowingly optimistic or they are intensely pessimistic. There is no tragic sense of endurance and strength. That comes from a more cyclical and spiraling vision of history that doesn't flip back and forth between this kind of shallow optimism and shallow pessimism. It has a greater sense of the realities of human strength and growth...
...cost up to 500,000 piasters ($1,200). For a time it was not uncommon for boys to chop off the first two fingers of their gun hand; that practice ended when the military decided to conscript the fingerless youths for porters. Today, some desperate draftees dig a shallow hole, toss in a fragmentation grenade, and cover the hole with a foot. If done properly, the practice brings an instant medical discharge...
...restored my faith in my fellow citizens, who were able to see and think above the prosecution's shallow non-case...
Despite its frequently childish espousal of childlessness, NON makes some valid points. It observes that the cultural bias against childless couples is so strong that husbands and wives cannot choose non-parenthood freely; they know they will be branded selfish, shallow and neurotic. In fact, the organization stresses, motives for parenthood are not always what they seem. Some parents use children, like drugs, to shield them from the realities of life. Others want offspring only to fulfill their own frustrated hopes, to have someone to possess and control, or to ensure financial support in their...
...evidence was uncovered in South Africa's Transvaal in an unusual formation of sedimentary rock. Once probably part of a shallow ocean bottom, the stratified rock has now been thrust to the surface and scientists can easily examine it. When Schopfs team compared the relative abundance of the two principal isotopes of carbon in each of the formation's many layers, they made an intriguing discovery. In the newer layers, those formed more recently than 3.3 billion years ago, carbon 12 and carbon 13 appeared in approximately the same ratio as they do in more modern deposits known...