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Such breast-beating had a hollow sound when matched against the agonies of anti-Communists and ex-Communists who have for years tried to warn the world against Communism, only to be smeared by slaves like Fast. But it was Fast's last-line reassertion of his rights as an individual that perhaps held the deepest implications for world Communism: "All this," he wrote, "has been written very personally, and it must be; for it is only what I have been thinking, and I must take the total responsibility for saying...
...violin is a thin, hollow wooden box with a long neck, a body shaped like a figure eight, and a capacity for more subtlety of expression than any other orchestral instrument. It was perfected in Italy in the 17th and 18th centuries by craftsmen of the Amati, Stradivari and Guarneri families. Others have been trying to duplicate their masterpieces of workmanship ever since...
...sharpers and racketeers; chewing-gum sticks were cut in half, sold for a penny apiece; undersized chocolate bars cost a nickel; peanuts costing 8? per Ib. dribbled out at the rate of six per penny. And when the machines ran out of merchandise, they returned nothing but a hollow, insulting clank. Leverone hired an engineer to design an honest machine that would return coins when empty, then contracted with well-known candy-bar manufacturers to supply full-sized bars for a nickel, used neatly uniformed, bond ed employees to service the machines honestly...
...little group of newsmen who traipsed into the Palais de Chaillot an hour later found Gruenther looking tired and hollow-eyed. But he flatly denied that ill health was ending a brilliant 37-year Army career that took him up to be chief of staff to General Mark Clark in World War II, to be SHAPE chief of staff under Eisenhower in 1951 (and under Ike's successor, Matt Ridgway), to be Supreme Allied Commander in 1953. Said Al Gruenther: "I've played tennis three times this week, and intend to win another match tomorrow." He was going...
Said the majority opinion, written by Justice Tom Clark: "At the outset we must condemn the practice of imputing a sinister meaning to the exercise of a person's constitutional right under the Fifth Amendment . . . The privilege against self-incrimination would be reduced to a hollow mockery if its exercise could be taken as equivalent either to a confession of guilt or a conclusive presumption of perjury...