Word: hollowing
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...Although hollow predictions seem to characterize the six-year search for a second-stage arms accord, Warnke's optimistic assessment may be accurate. The bulk of SALT II does appear ready for signing. The draft of the resolved portions runs more than 50 pages. Both sides have settled the central issue, agreeing to limit their strategic arsenals to 2,250 weapons systems at least until 1985. These ceilings will require the Soviets to scrap about 300 aging rockets and bombers. The U.S. will not have to make any cuts, since its strategic weapons now total...
THEN THE SERIOUS stuff begins, as the Boston rock press and assorted groupies from punks to spaceshots gather between the boxing ring and Peter, who starts, "Oh wow, man, look at this...looks like I'm back home...(wriggles back, sticks out his tongue and rolls his hollow eyeballs out from a thin, benny-worn face) spaced out again...
...Four platoons (200 troops) meet in a silent hollow for final briefing. Another 40 lieutenants, located elsewhere, are the "aggressors." Duden smears black and olive green camouflage paint on her face, then loads rounds of blank ammunition into her M16. "You each get 60 rounds," yells a commander. "They have to last you until tonight...
...Charles River was another obstacle for the tunnel-builders. Instead of burrowing under it, they chose to build over it--by means of the Weeks Bridge. The pipes that warm the Business School and the Soldiers Field complex snuggle in the hollow space beneath the walkway surface but above the arches that support the bridge. The passageway here is a wooden catwalk that runs up and over these rippling arches, creating a space that is quite high between the humps, smaller on the top of the arches, but always high enough to walk through, with an occasional stoop...
...through stages of division. Finally, when the egg becomes a blastocyst or shortly before, it is ready for implanting. One way this can be done is by picking up the egg, which is still no bigger than the dot at the end of this sentence, with a tiny hollow tube, or pipette, then inserting it through the cervix and into the uterus. If all goes well, it will implant itself in the uterine wall. At least a week must pass before the doctors know if the patient is indeed pregnant...