Word: hollower
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...disk. After appropriate delays (1/10, 1/20 and 1/40 of a second), they were rebroadcast from strategically located loudspeakers. The timing was such that the recorded speech reinforced rather than interfered with the words that came straight from the pulpit. Echoes were all but drowned out.* The result was faintly hollow and mechanical, but intelligible...
...Hollow Sound. Their heads spinning from the dizzy course of the testimony, subcommittee members asked the Justice Department to find out who was lying in the Teitelbaum case. Attorney General J. Howard McGrath ordered a grand jury investigation into all aspects of the case, not just the perjury question. Then, in an impassioned speech before the Federal Bar Association (Government lawyers and other attorneys who practice before federal agencies), he defended the honor of the U.S. Government's lawyers. He pinned on the first lapel button in the association's membership campaign, and said in a quivering voice...
After the week's testimony, the Attorney General's stirring words had a hollow sound. Wildly tangled as they were, the scandal trails kept leading right back to the door of Theron Lamar Caudle, who was one of McGrath's well-beloved top assistants until a few weeks...
...cleaned the area in the hollow of the joint, plunged in the needle, and almost immediately looked very crest-fallen. "Oh-oh," she said...
...miles outside of New Haven, sitting like the saucer of a giant teacup, lies the Yale Bowl. From the outside it is unimpressive. There is no mighty iron fence nor massive concrete sides to mark it at a distance, but only a mound of shrubs with hollow portals peeking...