Word: hollowing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...effort to divert the magma, Italy's minister of civil protection summoned a team of volcanologists. The strategy: to redirect the lava from its southward path into a wide hollow, away from inhabited areas. The specialists hoped that spreading the lava would speed its cooling, and thus slow the momentum of the flow. The diversion required the removal of a 25-ft. section in a 328-ft.-long natural wall of old lava, and was to be accomplished by precision blasting...
...West Virginia hollow of Gary, the silence hangs like a thick fog. "Used to be early in the morning, I would be real busy, men stopping in to get their lunch," said Constance Stepney, a cashier at the Bantam combination grocery store and gas station. "Now it's a real ghost town. You don't see no trains. You don't see the men coming in and going to work 'cause nobody's working...
...Kent Adams '85 3:47:00 Dean Putterman '84 3:49:00 Peter Eccles '85 3:57:00 David Firm, HNS 3:59:08 Geralyn White '84 4:04:00 Paul Kang '84 4:12:00 Tony Bienstock '85 4:12:00 Adam Cotsen '85 4:14:00 Kaarina Hollow '85 4:25:00 Wayne Meisel '82 4:30:00 Duby McDowell '83 4:30:00 Stephen Keeler '83 4:30:38 Tim Bechtold '84 4:52:00 Ann Skartvedt '84 4:52:00 Tim McGuire '83 5:04:00 *8th place **127th place (all other times unofficial...
...serious look at the issues. The prose, while often straight forward, becomes intolerable as Hart's conscientious stabs at eloquence fall flat--painfully highlighted by his incessant quoting of John F. Kennedy '40, whom he is clearly flying to emulate. Typical of his rhetoric are such hollow lines is. We have the experience, the means and the power to make the right choice. We cannot escape the consequences of making the wrong one," Or. "The steps outlined in this section are designed to help us bestow that sense of purpose and national will" Or. "A nation whose children...
...least, was the story many of them told throughout the '30s and '40s. The figure of the gin-soaked Hollywood sell-out became such a stale literary cliche that it found its way into the movies, where the studios and their hired scribblers could enjoy a hollow laugh at each other's expense...