Word: hollowing
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...Indianapolis, one Aaron Everett, 69, grump, quit his son's home because of the incessant radio. Searchers found him nestled in a hollow tree, grumbling over and over "A fellow can't sleep at all," and munching gingersnaps...
...chief general of the rebel forces, Gonzalo Escobar, had just fled from Torreon before the advance of Calles and his three federal columns. Theirs was the victory, but it was a hollow one. The wily General Escobar had looted five Torreon banks of $510,000 before he left. General Calles could see the outraged banks from where he ate, their windows broken, their vaults violated and bare...
Things are looking up in the fisticuff business. For years it has been unexciting largely because it was held in the horny hollow of one man's hand, Tex Rickard's. Others sought to enter the field of promotion from time to time but failed because they could not cope with the supreme showmanship of the old master. Then Rickard died (TIME...
Died. Dr. John Knox Allen, 84, of Tarrytown, N. Y., for 50 years minister of the First Reformed Church of Tarrytown, famed as the church near which the Headless Horseman gave horrific chase to Ichabod Crane in Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow; of paralysis; in Tarrytown...
Freely translated the name (really a long phrase) means: The Church of Saint Mary in a hollow of white hazel near to the rapid whirlpool by a red cave...