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...these anecdotes concerned some preposterous lie about food packaging that MacKinnon had told his first grocery store customer; another showed how a father had convinced his on to kill a beloved net turtle by applying one of the rules taught by the course. Audience response was a hollow nervous titter...
...foot of the brink. An hour later, Dave dragged himself back up. He and Jim found a cave in a crevasse and spent the night there. The feet of both were frostbitten, Dave's so badly that when he rapped them with his knuckles "the sound was hollow and wooden...
...Evil Place. The Rudges still did not know who set out the mysterious stones, but they doggedly followed the pudding stone trail across eastern England. At last it took them to Grime's Graves in Norfolk, a dark, fir-grown hollow where Stone Age man from earliest times dug flint with staghorn picks. Norfolk country people shun the spot, and call it "the evil place." But for the Rudges, it was the payoff...
...Hollow Triumph? Dr. Kroger did not suggest that because a physician considers a woman patient neurotic he should take upon himself the burden of deciding whether or not she should have a child. Instead, he proposed that the physician, perhaps with the help of a psychiatrist, explain to the patient the emotional meaning of her sterility, and thus help her decide for herself...
...child's psychic development, and just as in the case of the emotionally immature but fertile woman, another member is added to an endless procession of neurotics. Therefore, the physician must.be aware that apparently 'successful' treatments of [such] sterility without adequate psychotherapy may actually become a hollow triumph...