Word: hollowing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...German was reserved the hollow feeling of shock, when the Allies landed in North Africa, in Sicily, in Italy, in Normandy, in southern France, on the east bank of the Rhine. This time the Germans felt the false hopes of abortive offensives, Atlantic Walls and secret weapons-and still hollower feelings after the fall of Tunis, Sicily, Naples, Rome; Kharkov, Kiev, Odessa, Bucharest; Paris, Marseilles, Antwerp; Riga, Sofia, Warsaw, Budapest; Aachen and Cracow; Frankfurt and Danzig; Essen and Vienna; Magdeburg and Nürenberg; Bremen, Milan, Munich, Berlin...
...among us the living who . . . lifts his hand in hate against a brother, or thinks himself superior to those who happen to be in the minority, makes of this ceremony and of the bloody sacrifice it commemorates, an empty, hollow mockery...
...radio's professionals came off better than the host of minor notables who were rushed to the microphones. Most painful to the ordinary listener was the cumulative effect of the politicos who cannot speak without orating and of well-meaning citizens who aired sincere and hollow banalities. By contrast, radio's shirt-sleevers distinguished themselves...
...great uncertainty lay in the political future. If Philippine independence becomes a fact in 1946, it will be a hollow gain unless the U.S. grants a preferential tariff on Philippine products. In prewar years the U.S. bought 82% of the Philippine exports, worth $256,000,000 a year. But a high tariff would cut this to a trickle, leave the Philippines to begin a search for new markets...
Harry Hopkins, gaunt, hollow-eyed adviser-assistant to Franklin Roosevelt, got a salary raise (from $10,000 to $15,000 a year) as of last July n. Paid out of the war emergency funds assigned to the President by Congress, he now gets the same salary he once got as Secretary of Commerce...