Word: hollowing
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...Kamarauskas interned at two Chicago hospitals before going to St. Bernard's, and each time earned the respect and liking of the staff. At night, he drove himself hollow-eyed polishing up for the state medical examinations in radiology. In his few relaxed moments, he would tell in halting English of his ambition to become a U.S. citizen, to build a new career and fit happily into his new world...
DESPITE the skill, authority and sincerity of the participants, the Great Debate on U.S. foreign policy still rang hollow. Through last week all sides had been more clear and forceful about what they didn't want than about what they did want...
Last spring a federal grand jury in Manhattan decided that William Remington's denials were hollow after all, and indicted him on a charge of perjury. Last week, as he went to trial in the Manhattan federal courtroom where Alger Hiss had faced a similar charge, Defendant Remington found that the prosecution had more than the testimony of Elizabeth Bentley to back its charge. The prosecution's first important witness was Remington's divorced wife...
...grizzled old Buddhist Wizard of Kalimpong specializes in freeing the struggling spirits of the dying. This he accomplishes by sticking a hollow tube down the dying man's throat to provide a spiritual exit; at the same time the Wizard toots a horn made of a human thigh bone. The Wizard might be thought eccentric elsewhere, but not in Kalimpong (pop. 8,800), a zany Indian town straddling a 4,000-foot ridge in the Himalayan foothills...
...principle, the afterburner is as simple as ABC. The tailpipe of an ordinary turbojet engine is lengthened and inside its throat is placed a grid of hollow, perforated cross-pieces. When maximum power is needed, fuel is squirted into the stream of hot gas racing out of the tailpipe. There is plenty of heat to ignite it and plenty of oxygen to keep it alight. So a vast yellow flame bursts out of the pipe, and the plane gets a mighty shove forward...