Word: hollowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...away from the hospital a humble little old lady, Aki Komatsu, rested from the sun with two other old ladies in the black hollow of a burned-out tree in the center of the Hiroshima city graveyard. She had little to share but the shade, she said. But she was sharing much more. "I lost my husband and my three children," she said, pointing a crooked finger to a rubble heap near by. "I lived. These [pointing to her companions], lost theirs also. Now we three old ladies live in a little hut near the city hall. We are clearing...
...Sorbonne and at Yale, in the Kremlin, at Westminster, and on Capitol Hill, they could use a hollow tree...
Molotov had dealt his French comrades, and Communists everywhere, a cruel blow. The Moscow press offered hollow comfort by declaring that the long-expected U.S. depression was at hand, that the Marshall Plan was merely an attempt to capture markets for the U.S. But Izvestia reminded world Communism of the larger, long-range issues. At Monticello last week, Harry Truman had in effect declared that there was an ideological war on between democratic philosophy and its totalitarian enemies. Izvestia belligerently agreed: "The greatest achievement of world culture-Leninism-illuminates our road. ... A fighting, militant ideology, irreconcilable and merciless...
Reactivated: H. L. Mencken, Baltimore's oldest volcano; by Columnist Earl Wilson, who interviewed him. The volcano showed its age; the new rumblings were as sensationally noisy as the outbursts of the '20s, but now they sounded a lot more hollow: "I'm in favor of war and hope it starts soon. . . . The country enjoys war. . . . [The Japanese] are the only intelligent Orientals. . . . There's not an honest man in China. That reminds me, no American Indian has ever been worth a jolly good God damn, either. . . . [On Harry Truman] That quack! ... [On Harold Stassen] Another...
...Echo. But this week, as Henry prepared to barnstorm the South, his Western triumph began to give off a slightly hollow echo, and so did talk of a third party. Though the Wallace name had been wildly cheered everywhere, the Wallace words had been greeted with only perfunctory applause. The listeners who arrived in high enthusiasm had gone away as troubled as before. His loud cries "in behalf of the common man"; "stop the rush to war" did not stand analysis, and they continued to ring true only to the devout...