Word: shallows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tank: a shallow pool with a cement strip, slides and oarlocks set in the center. A tank allows a crew to practice as a unit in the winter...
Along the Texas coast in East Galveston Bay, Hugh Brothers, 52, a Houston pharmacist, was casting for flounder in shallow water. "This swell came up from behind in the water. It didn't knock me down, but it was extraordinary. I looked around and saw there weren't any boats nearby, and I said, 'Where'd that come from?' Then everything was perfectly still." On the 48th floor of the 64-story Transco Tower in Houston, Martha Carlin saw "water sloshing around in the coffee urns. Office doors were closing, and the building was in motion. I looked...
...this type of writing--bold, inventive, concise, brash--that gives us a renewed optimism about the shallow, greedy generation that we college students comprise, and that makes us all just a teensy bit more hopeful about the future of life on this planet...
...bizarre poems and short stories in "Horse's Neck" are at best a sort of spiritual autobiography; at worst, shallow and meaningless...
...bags to lift the Rainbow Warrior from the bottom of Auckland harbor in New Zealand after it had been sunk by a terrorist bomb. According to accounts in the British press, Pierce has suggested a similar approach for the Titanic. But raising the 418-ton Greenpeace ship from a shallow harbor is one thing, rescuing the 46,328-ton Titanic from 2 1/2 miles of ocean quite another. Says Keith Jessop, the Yorkshire diver who in 1981 salvaged $80 million in gold bullion from the World War II battleship H.M.S. Edinburgh: "You can't even speak of them...