Word: hollowing
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...designed by a member of the syndicate, Frank Paine. She has a beam of 22 ft. 4 in. and is unique among cup contenders in that she has no cast-lead keel but carries her ballast in a trough-keel formed by moulding the garboard plates into a hollow space, where lead will be stowed as needed...
...Boston Arena, countless couples pivot and tremble in a din of sobbing cornets and wailing saxophones. . Hollow-eyed and ghastly in the lurid light, they dance day after day. A marathon is on. They must not stop. A pot of gold is at the end of this insane rainbow. Days elapse and a jaded couple poses exhausted and physically shattered before the eyes of a nation to receive a purse of money...
...Author. Maxim Gorki (real name: Alexey Maximovitch Pyeshkoff) is 62, gaunt, wrinkled, hollow-eyed, with drooping moustaches. He wears: baggy trousers, blue workman's shirt, a blue sweater. A poor boy, he had to earn his own living when he was nine; he has been worker in a bootshop, apprentice to a mechanical draughtsman, cook's assistant, lawyer's clerk, tramp, laborer, baker. Once he tried to commit suicide; the bullet is still in his body. Though he took no part in the Revolution, for he believed the masses were not ready...
...spreading a net around one end of a fallen hollow tree, hunters in Arkansas last week caught a 98-lb. timber wolf with only two toes on his right hind...
...James Robertson of Cross County, Ark., called for the best hounds in the state and a posse of huntsmen. They found the pack at dawn, separated Two Toes from his followers, cornered him at noon. Tired, fiery-eyed, froth-mouthed and snarling, he made his last stand in the hollow of the fallen log. He was taken to Memphis, Tenn., to spend the rest of his life in a cage...