Word: hollowing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lovingly recounted the steps leading to their acquisition, and their costs. Some of the rooms, most notably a child's den, were dark and half-furnished. By the time dinner was served, my feet ached, the sycophants had shifted into high gear and the evening had acquired a deafeningly hollow ring leaving me with the impression that certain kinds of success make failure look downright edifying by contrast...
...guile. Tang, a Chinese general, still observes the ancient code of honor in a world where that concept has little place. As richly textured as a tapestry, The Warlord captures both the essence of Asia and the sweeping panorama of a people trapped between the ancient grinding forces of hollow tradition and heartless change...
...Marlene Moncada, who claimed to have been working as a double agent: she said a CIA agent recruited her last year in Honduras, where she was stationed at the Nicaraguan embassy. Cerna showed off an espionage kit allegedly provided Moncada by the CIA (Sony short-wave radio, edible paper, hollow Mayan book ends containing codebooks), as well as photographs of her meeting with Rodriguez and a color videotape montage of various other rendezvous. (The Sandinistas displayed a funny show-biz bent: the video agitprop had a musical sound track appropriate for a spy movie...
Lech Walesa is a man who started out a day-break, (at the hour) when the history of Poland demanded that the people of Poland act to solve the problems that a repressive government and a hollow party no longer knew how to solve...
...Ohio, who snapped up 150 morels in a few hours. A novice might be wary of the poisonous cap. However, experts say that Morchella esculenta or the five or six other varieties of the most sought after morels can be clearly identified by their pitted, spongy caps and attached hollow stems. Chilly weather this spring has driven morel prices...