Word: hollowed
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Bizarre though some of his opinions may seem, it is absolutely critical that Mack's academic freedom be defended and that his tenure be preserved. Academic freedom would be a hollow and meaningless construct if it were employed to guarantee only those opinions which are commonly considered valid. The possibility of alien abduction may be hard to fathom, but it is precisely in this extreme case that Harvard's commitment to freedom of thought needs to be staunchest...
...minutes after the bombing, McVeigh was pulled over for driving without license plates outside Perry, Oklahoma, 60 miles from Oklahoma City. When Oklahoma state trooper Charles Hanger noticed that McVeigh was wearing a shoulder harness bearing a Glock semiautomatic pistol, which turned out to be loaded with hollow-point bullets, the trooper arrested him on state charges of carrying a concealed weapon, driving without tags and driving without insurance. McVeigh was taken to the jail at the courthouse...
...Katz's argument rings hollow. Who is to say that a more organized, better funded and technologically more advanced Serb army wouldn't systematically destroy the Muslim population of Bosnia? Recently discovered documents have shown the evil intent of Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic as he ordered the vicious murder of peaceful Bosnian Muslims. Are the Serbs just Nazis whose military teeth are not quite has sharp...
West goes even further than Lerner's hollow warnings of Jewish destruction. He threatens a defensive war against an oncoming American holocaust facing Blacks. "If we don't come up with a multiracial, progressive strategy, then we are simply headed toward Armageddon," he says. "I mean race war...That's quite imaginable in this society...
While Dingman later said that he didn't remember whether or not he told Kane the students' names, his explanation of the conversation with Kane rings hollow. Dingman said that Kane had a "right to know" about the proceedings, since "[i]t happened in a facility he oversees and he is responsible...