Word: shallowing
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...Howell's prudery. He feels that the preponderant portion of our contemporary literature is written by adolescent minds, by men such as Hemingway, Wolfe, and Meucken. These writers, he asserts, feel that their most important duty is to "face life," but in so doing they have become "emotionally shallow...
...their launches, shouted to Captain Fazzi to abandon ship. "I have done my duty," puffed Captain Fazzi, his feet planted in the rising water. The Marines kept shouting to the sailors to jump, until somebody noticed that before opening the sea cocks the captain had moved his ship into shallow water and made a hawser fast to shore...
...train roared into the station. A woman screamed. The motorman threw on the brakes, but he knew he could not stop in time. Two men waiting for the train jumped down on the track, grabbed the unconscious man by his shoulders and feet and slung him under the shallow overhang of the platform. They crouched there with him, while three cars of the train ground past...
...Italian fort on the Libyan littoral, the fleet submitted the place to a terrible shellacking from the sea, lazily drifting along the coast and lobbing hundreds of tons of steel into the enemy's back. For this purpose the monitor Terror, mounting 15-inch guns, and certain shallow-draught gunboats were brought all the way from the China station...
Last week Bengasi fell (see p. 36). With its fall the fleet obtained another shallow, sand-bottom harbor useful for light ships...