Word: hollowing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...endless parties, picnics and explications. The pageantry is perfectly American. Yet the nation may have grown a little weary of such celebrations. The skies of the '80s have been filled with red, white and blue balloons. In the waning Reagan years, the note of national self-congratulation sounds hollow...
...officials, on the other hand, argued that the problem with the June 25 meeting was a lack of advance preparation that could be solved with only a few weeks' delay. But that claim rang hollow. Conceded one U.S. diplomat: "We panic at the thought of a Central American agreement with the Sandinistas...
...been published in the journal Socialist Legality even before the trial took place. But the Soviet evidence against him was overwhelming. In denying Linnas' plea that, in the name of humanity, he not be sent back, a three-judge panel in New York City declared that "noble words . . . ring hollow when spoken by a man who ordered the extermination of innocent men, women and children kneeling at the edge of a mass grave." Last week the Supreme Court in a 6-to-3 vote refused to extend a temporary order blocking the expulsion...
Rogers said that the best students who get into Brown, which has a very unstructured curriculum, and other prestigious schools end up going somewhere else. He called the reports of Brown's popularity in past several years "hollow hype...
...three week stay in the embattled country last summer, Rushdie attempts to bring reality to a controversy too often plagued by abstraction. But while his two-dimensional snapshots do not make for a convincing political argument, Rushdie does succeed in injecting a startling dose reality into the otherwise hollow debate over U.S. Central American policy...