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...tell what its convertiplane will be like. Sky-side gossip believes that it will have a rotor driven by some sort of jet. One possibility is small ram-jets on each blade tip to push the rotor around. Another is a central turbojet engine blowing hot gases through hollow rotor blades. The gas will escape as jets from one side of each blade tip, making the rotor spin. When the aircraft has gained enough altitude, the central engine will be used to propel it forward, supported partly by the windmilling rotor, partly by small wings...
...catches H. Mewhinney with his patter down. When one fan insisted that bookkeeper was the only English word with three double letters, Mewhinney gave him at least three more: "Poo-peepee (a seaman who is peeped at from a poop deck), raccoonnookkeeper (the custodian of a coon hollow) and barroom-moodduller (one who dulls the jovial mood in a barroom)." When another reader asked him to explain the Truman Doctrine in one-syllable words, Mewhinney obliged-in 285 one-syllable words...
...east-central front, around an embattled hollow nicknamed the Punchbowl, U.S. Marines made the deepest U.N. penetrations into North Korea since last December. Wielding flamethrowers and bayonets, aided by planes, Army artillery and tanks, the leathernecks clawed their way up towering crags. From caves and log-roofed bunkers, North Koreans fought back doggedly, but the flamethrowers finally made the Reds break...
...learned to pronounce the big words, 60 of my pals would be out of work next day, includin' myself." Fowler has collected dozens of Durante's malapropisms. In a low mood, Jimmy once said, "The red corpsuckles is gone from my veins. I'm just a hollow shelf." Another time, when he had mistaken a firebreak clearing in the woods for the highway, he remarked, "Us perfessors don't get out of the chemical lavatory too often...
...local heavyweights and moves on to the big city. Booed by the fans as a dirty fighter and damned by the newspapers as an inept one, Chandler nevertheless bulls his Neanderthal way to the championship. With none of the authentic prize-ring flavor of Champion, Iron Man has a hollow ring, and badly dents the laws of probability by having Chandler dethroned by an old pal from the same tiny mining town...