Word: hollow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...brief campaign it proved unable to articulate these interests outside of a fairly narrow political agenda. While the leadership took pains to argue for inclusion, PUCC's platform emphasizing "social responsibility," "unionized contractors for University projects," and "permanent faculty members in ...ethnic studies, gay studies, and labor economics," rang hollow before a more moderate student body...
Floyd doesn't just relate the tale, he performs it. He works himself into the role of the dying man, jerking and grimacing with each hollow pop, then polishes off the narrative with a punch line. The dead man never actually fell. He walked outside with five bullets in his back and sat down on the curb where rigor mortis...
Proud to say, I kept my resolution--for pre-frosh week. United by the fear of solitary dining, my roommates and I gathered at 5:30 each evening to venture into the Union for dinner. Sure, our conversations were hollow ("So what is it like to live in Indiana?"), but hey, at least we weren't eating alone...
...takes its title from the Greek version of one of the ruler's alternate names, User-maat-re. "Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" said the inscription on the pharaoh's statue in Shelley's sonnet. Though the poet was making the point that such boasts are hollow because great monuments eventually decay, Ramesses' achievements were truly magnificent...
...narrow to accommodate a prince's sarcophagus. That suggests to Weeks that the rooms weren't burial chambers but rather "chapels" for funeral offerings. And cracks in these rooms and in four of the massive pillars in the larger chamber are clues that the floors are unsupported-that hollow areas lie below. Could they contain intact sarcophagi with mummies inside? "I'm hoping," says Weeks...