Word: hollow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chief general of the rebel forces, Gonzalo Escobar, had just fled from Torreon before the advance of Calles and his three federal columns. Theirs was the victory, but it was a hollow one. The wily General Escobar had looted five Torreon banks of $510,000 before he left. General Calles could see the outraged banks from where he ate, their windows broken, their vaults violated and bare...
Freely translated the name (really a long phrase) means: The Church of Saint Mary in a hollow of white hazel near to the rapid whirlpool by a red cave...
pwll puth a hollow...
...minority leader Mr. Garrett is young, comparatively. Of his 53 years, 24 have been spent in the House, in laborious ascent through his party organization. A tall stooping man with hollow eyes, a face almost cadaverous, a melancholy voice, he is a devoted lover of the past...
Fakirs who dally with venomous snakes take good care to defang them. The fangs are long, hollow teeth connecting with venom sacs in the snake's upper jaw. When the fangs puncture animal, fish or reptile the venom (in most snakes a yellowish fluid) is squeezed, like a hypodermic injection, into the victim's flesh. Hindus defang their serpents by searing the jaws with hot irons. Others rip the fangs out with pincers or flick a cloth at the snake's head until the fangs are caught in the cloth and yanked out. Defanged snakes quickly grow...