Word: shallowing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many will support wholly the arguments of the preceding editorial. To some, the analysis of Nixon's move as a tragic misjudgment of American mood seems far too shallow: The CRIMSON in the past has urged victory for the National Liberation Front, we still do so. The immediate necessity, however, is to present a unified resistance to Mr. Nixon...
Snyder also badly misjudged the end of Act III, by eradicating Antony's joy in his ironic recovery, which is really his moral devolution. The Antony of this production seemed incapable of lyric relaxation, of case, forgiveness, vision, and music. The Cleopatra is too often the shallow playacting little girl or the burning termagant. The secret of Cleopatra is that she is always capable of her speeches at the close of Acts IV and V. She must always act in the intuition that her honor and her safety are irreconcilable, that a race of heaven is a death on earth...
Farther away, more untapped riches may lie under the shallow seas between Japan and Taiwan. After a recent survey, a United Nations commission reported that the area "may contain one of the most prolific oil and gas reservoirs in the world, possibly comparing favorably with the Persian Gulf." That prospect, which could start still another exploration boom in Asia, lends credence to Banker David Rockefeller's prediction that spending on the search for oil in the Far East will total $5 billion over the next dozen years...
...several wars of aggression among the great powers before the U.S. came into existence. How is it that we are, all of a sudden, behind every international conflict of this century, while the old hands at it have become innocent victims of our imperialistic plots? Their arguments are so shallow that I can think of only one two-syllable American word to describe them...
...found that the standard bait, metaldehyde (which must be mixed with arsenic), attracted and killed only 28 slugs. Even then, the chemical caused the slugs to slug back: reacting to the poison, they exuded "copious quantities of slime" that Smith describes as "revolting to householders." By contrast, a shallow pan of beer lured 300 slugs: they sipped, then slipped, and happily drowned in the brew without a fight...