Word: shallowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inches fell in less than 24 hours. The usually shallow mountain creeks burgeoned out of control, hurling waves of water down the hills into Rapid City. "We watched in amazement as a small stream spilling from the hillside turned into a four-foot-wide torrent," recalled Jerry Mashek, a reporter for the Rapid City Journal. "Rapid Creek, normally clear and placid, sounded like a freight train passing in the night. It must have been 150 feet wide...
Those who doubt the effectiveness of the mining operation point out that incoming cargo ships might stop outside the minefield and then unload their supplies onto shallow-draft wooden boats that might pass over the field without being detected. As a countermeasure, the Navy might set its mines to go off at extremely faint signals. With such hair triggers, however, the mines could be detonated by a strong current or even by a large passing fish...
...President began speaking to the nation on prime-time evening TV, it was 10 a.m. on Vietnamese clocks. At that hour, Navy jets from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin dipped low over the narrow, shallow approaches to Haiphong and six smaller ports up and down North Viet Nam's 420 miles of coastline. In a matter of minutes, the pilots splashed hundreds of deadly delayed-action mines into the Communist shipping channels, and the peril and violence of the war in Indochina escalated once again...
...many Americans over 40, a simple ceremony in Tokyo this week will perhaps serve as a strange and vaguely reassuring reminder of how shallow are the tracks of former wars. During 82 savage and bloody spring days in 1945, 12,300 American servicemen died in the closing months of the Pacific war for the control of Okinawa, a 60-mile-long island in the East China Sea. Early this week, in the gardens of the Imperial Palace, Vice President Spiro Agnew is to read a presidential proclamation, signed by Richard Nixon, that will end the U.S. military occupation of Okinawa...
...pickup truck as a posse closed in, he dove into a Louisiana bayou, swam across the border to Texas and holed up there for six months before being captured. Another, who is now serving a long jail sentence, used to zip across the swamps in a shallow boat that could reach speeds of 85 m.p.h...