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During one such raid, a peasant seems in danger of losing his prized cow to a soldier. Fortunately, the beast leads the invader into confusion: "The German on his way through the woods was making discoveries that left him openmouthed: chickens perched on trees, guinea pigs peering from hollow trunks. It was a complete Noah's ark." In The Adventure of a Bather, a respectable signora is horrified to discover that the bottom of her newfangled two-piece bathing suit has come off while she swims near a crowded beach...
...ARGUMENT is so cogent, then why does it strike a hollow chord? It does so, we venture, because it once again points up the president's proclivity to pontificate at the expense of action, to take on the easy target as opposed to the difficult...
...symptomatic of Kerry's campaign that even his safest proclamations of the liberal creed of morality and care should sound hollow. He has yet to adequately convince voters that he has evolved from his brash days as leader of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, when he gained a reputation among many as a hollow, unconvincing activist...
...monkey contains the instruments and goes up and down in the stratosphere; it consists of three elongated hollow "doughnuts" which fire a beam of light through its center hole as stratospheric gasses pass through. The light absorbs oxygen and measures the concentration of atmospheric gasses...
...symptomatic of Kerry's campaign that even his safest proclamations of the liberal would of morality and care should sound hollow. He has yet to adequately convince voters that he has evolved from his brash days as leader of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, when he gained a reputation among many as a hollow; unconvincing activist...