Word: shallowing
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...Another car was coming toward him. A woman was driving, and there were three kids in the back seat. Billy saw the car waver, then veer to the wrong side of the road. Billy wrenched at the big wheel, sent the rig thundering off the pavement, across a shallow ditch, through a barbed-wire fence...
...Patrick's Cathedral, offered them a raise of about 3%. The gravediggers turned the offer down, and negotiations came to a stop. On Jan. 13, they went out on strike, and the coffins began to pile up at Calvary. After burial services, the coffins were laid down in shallow uncovered trenches. Last week when the number of unburied dead topped 1,000, the cardinal called out his seminarians. Tightlipped, he rode his gravediggers through the cemetery's picket line, while a silent union man respectfully touched his hat to his cardinal arch bishop. It was a serious decision...
...banks. But between July and October, a great gush of muddy water floods the narrow, fertile valley. For the ancient Egyptians, who did not demand too much of their sacred river, the flood was fine. They built mud dikes around the fields, and caught the flood water in shallow basins. The silt settled to the bottom, keeping the soil fertile, millennium after millennium. When the water. was gone, the peasants planted their crops, often without plowing or other preparation, in the wet soil...
...patient was the whole U.S., and diagnosing its state of health was something like standing in shallow water and trying to feel a whale's pulse. There was room for all, and last week doctors were crowding alongside by the scores, prodding with their stethoscopes, waving hastily scribbled prescription blanks, and bitterly berating each other as quacks, bunion choppers, herb cooks and barbers...
Early in the season Harper lamented chronically about shallow reserves, but reasons for these complaints have gradually vanished. As it stands now he can complement his starting lineup, composed of Bill Hickey, Bill Borah, John Stevenson, Jim Downey, and Jerry Murphy, with at least three reliable substitutes in the persons of Al Switzer, Ambrose Redmond, and A. Turovetz...