Word: hollowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Author Flagg's roving eye also lights on the Barrymores, "the most self-centered, spoiled, irresponsible leprechauns ever to crawl out of a hollow tree-life would have been much duller without them. Jack and I had a lot in common (possibly the less admirable traits). . . . We were both agreeably astonished that each of us was a friend and admirer of Jeddu Krishnamurti or Krishna...
...thigh to bring the broken pieces of bone together, using a fluoroscope to see what he is doing. Then, through a one-inch incision in the hip over the end of the bone, he rams a guide wire down through the bone's marrow canal. He slips the hollow, stainless-steel nail over the wire, hammers it in the full length of the bone, pulls out the wire and sews up the incision...
Royal Confinement. This happens every night until the larvae are enclosed in cocoons to change into motionless pupae. Deprived of the stimulation which they get from, the larvae's squirmings, the workers lose their restlessness. The whole colony marches into a hollow log. After a few days of this seclusion, the queen is gravid. Her abdomen swells enormously, and she lays some 30,000 eggs, which hatch into tender white larvae. When both larvae and "callow" ants are ready to travel, the colony becomes nomadic again...
...signs of wanting to ride the gravy train along with the NAM, the farmers and certain merchants of Harvard Square. If the AVC eventually decides to campaign formally for a hike in the monthly check, such a move will give its proud boast, "Citizens first, veterans second," that unmistakable hollow ring...
...principle*made it all easy. In the hippo's tank they rigged up a contraption consisting of a hollow tube (stuck vertically in the water) enclosing a float attached to a moving arm arranged to swing around a marked scale. (On the basis of Archimedes' principle, the markings had been calibrated to register the weight of the water displaced, easily calculated from water's known weight by volume...