Word: hollowing
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Last week Lloyd presented the government's measures. They fell with a distinctly timeworn, hollow plop. Among them...
...resting place atop an asphalted nylon mat that anchors the shifting sands of the sea's bottom. Precisely at the moment of the tide's turn, when the water was completely still, 25 workmen aboard Caisson 7 frantically twirled at the watercocks. The waters rumbled into the hollow insides of the caisson, and after four minutes it sank surely into place...
...sovereigns William and Mary, carried a 40-in. Malacca cane, topped by a crutch-shaped gold head. At Radcliffe's death, the cane was passed on to the first of four eminent successors in the practice of royal medicine. Now a museum piece, it has a hollow head, which may have been used as a vinaigrette, holding aro matic salts to ward off infection. U.S. pathologists revived the tradition of the gold-headed cane in 1919, and its replica was awarded in 1923 to William Henry Welch (1850-1934), another of Whipple's great teachers at Hopkins...
...words, coming from a man who aspires to the leadership of Africa, sounded somewhat hollow-and with good reason. The 100-odd delegates from 31 African countries were largely second-string (the exception: Kenya's Tom Mboya, who goes everywhere). And the "brothers in arms" were soon at one another's throats. Somali delegates tried to denounce Ethiopian border attacks, and had to be ejected...
...then that Eve (Sally Bailey) emerges from underneath him. For Choreographer Christensen, the biggest problem was the birth of Eve. "I sat at my desk for days, thinking-how do I do that? Drew pictures, and all that. As it turned out. Eve has to crouch in the hollow of that tree from the beginning of the ballet until it's time for her to slip from Adam's rib." As danced by San Francisco's exuberant, youthful bantam ballet company, Original Sin is emotional as well as entertaining...