Word: hollowing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deeply skeptical when George Bush pounds his first on the podium and says the Administration won't stop until the recovery reaches every single American. In his passionate defense of the Reagan record, Bush rang out on Thursday night, but he rang hollow...
...must be said that people like Iacocca add nerve to circumstances, and that it helps to work in a country where individuals have room to stretch. But standing alone often means mere hollow defiance...
...slaggardly approach-fully shared by the Soviets-toward making do with its adversary. Reagan mouthed all the right words in his peacenik-comelately rounting before the U.N. General Assembly, but to those who have been watching with some discrination the foreign policy deeds of his Administration, they rang hollow. A brief capsule of this history is highly instructive...
During one such raid, a peasant seems in danger of losing his prized cow to a soldier. Fortunately, the beast leads the invader into confusion: "The German on his way through the woods was making discoveries that left him openmouthed: chickens perched on trees, guinea pigs peering from hollow trunks. It was a complete Noah's ark." In The Adventure of a Bather, a respectable signora is horrified to discover that the bottom of her newfangled two-piece bathing suit has come off while she swims near a crowded beach...
...ARGUMENT is so cogent, then why does it strike a hollow chord? It does so, we venture, because it once again points up the president's proclivity to pontificate at the expense of action, to take on the easy target as opposed to the difficult...