Word: hollowedout
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Russell Ben-Ali, a Harlem native and crime reporter, was trying to find a woman whose son had shot a police offer the night before. He approached a gray, six-story, hollowedout building where the mother was reported to live. In one doorway, two men were exchanging money, but Russell was smart enough not to stare. Although construction worker were gutting some of the room in the apartment building, fire had already done much of the work...
...boarder, the mucker, who like the poor, is always with us, but to the "state of the yard." Coolness and audacity are necessary to approach this subject, but necessity is even more powerful than imprudence. One of the notably weak spots of the yard is that beautiful, sloping, inclined, hollowedout, well watered and ever-mud-adorned stretch of path from Weld to the library. We will not claim that we have here a right to use the rather sweeping term, "Scylla and Charybdis," but that does not alter the fact that a wet day causes this particular piece of walk...
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