Word: hollowing
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...Hollow Boast. Fanfani's severe case of presidential fever was finally cured by six Cabinet members who threatened to quit if the Premier did not abandon his ambitions. Fanfani then released the 40-odd votes he controlled. As applause greeted the tally that clinched Segni's election, Fanfani stared sullenly into the television camera. Taking defeat more gracefully was Segni's closest open opponent, moderate Social Democrat Giuseppe Saragat, who, as a partner in the government coalition, may be named Foreign Minister to fill Segni's now vacant position...
...Middle Ages, The Hidden Fortress relates the adventures of five people who are trapped in an enemy province with a fortune in gold that is hidden inside several hundred hollow branches. This gold is all that remains of the wealth of the Akizukis, a noble house recently deposed in civil war. The Akizuki princess (dressed in tight blouse and bulky shorts) and her loyal general (half-shaven but infinitely courageous) travel with the gold-filled faggots. Two peasant refugees and a woman saved from prostitution do the manual labor...
...tracing the "lost wax" process used by Greek sculptors in the Art story "Young Man of Piraeus" [March 30], you describe a final step: "Molten bronze poured between the two clay surfaces melted the wax and replaced it, forming a hollow statue of bronze filled with irremovable clay." The wax, in any "lost wax" process, cast today as well as in ancient times, always has to be burned out of the mold before the bronze can be poured...
...Appian Way the hollow woman with one of the world's most breathtaking shells determinedly pursued her whims...
...sculptors used the "lost wax" process, making their original models of wax-covered clay. When the final details had been modeled in the wax, a second layer of clay was molded around it. Molten bronze poured between the two clay surfaces melted the wax and replaced it, forming a hollow statue of bronze filled with irremovable clay...