Word: hollowing
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...rising air, saturated with ocean vapor, cools off in the upper atmosphere, the air currents move faster & faster. Soon the growing whirlwind, given a counterclockwise spiraling motion by the earth's rotation (it is clockwise in the Southern hemisphere), resembles a vast phonograph record, with a hollow core, the vortex or "eye" of the storm, through which the sun may shine on the turbulent sea below...
None of them has seen the Mad Anesthetist at his work, nor heard his hollow laugh. But last week citizens of Mattoon were watching for him, any and every midnight...
White House correspondents had not seen Franklin Roosevelt for 38 days. Many of them had watched newsreels to see how he looked; had seen the San Diego railroad-car film of his Democratic Convention speech, in which his face had seemed gaunt and slack, his eyes and cheeks hollow. They had not been able to tell whether bad lighting or deep fatigue was responsible. They had noted that in pictures shot in Hawaiian sunshine, and again, beneath a cruiser's guns at Bremerton, he seemed healthier, more alert, though thinner of face. Therefore, with curiosity and concern, they filed...
...rate, he took up his new task with a brief radio speech, offering polite homage to Hitler, a tactful reference to the late Field Marshal von Hindenburg (still the idol of the Junkers) and even a hollow gesture to the despised civilians: "And now, people, to arms...
...muddy brooks some soldiers would break discipline, stoop and guzzle the water-nothing else could be had en route. The fields were barren and deserted, the houses shuttered and hollow. Once we saw a hunchbacked cripple spading his garden. In one village a blind peasant sat on his doorstep amidst the empty houses of his neighbors and listened to the plodding shuffle of passing troops...