Word: hollowing
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...first man of all proved to be Hugh Halsell (aged "between 60 and 65") of Dallas and Sleepy Hollow, whose 156 strokes for two journeys over the par 71 route won the title ?the first time it had ever been won in less than...
...action of Cosgrave's Government in arresting President de Valera and preventing him from addressing his constituents in Clare shows that their pretense for free speech and free elections is as hollow as their pretense that they represent the people of Ireland, in whose name they have dragged Ireland in the mire...
...Upon hollow shoulders you tried to carry your assumed fact,--"if affairs continue to take the same course there will this year be a reduplication of a situation that has become intolerable to every one interested and most of all to the crew men themselves." Here you are following a common journalistic policy of creating a whirlwind; but your effort is rash, uncalled for,--and certainly untimely. And furthermore is it not harmful to bewail the crew and the coach just before a race, instead of encouraging them...
...whatever of the dramatic is left in Bill's thick voiced, "Good God!", as well as lessening the effect of Lady Cheshire's pronouncement that having different manners is worse than having different souls. Even Studdenham's five and twenty years in the service of the Cheshires has a hollow sound...
...Year's resolution shouted from the housetops and repeated again and again in the days following. may ring hollow, but at least it is emphatic enough to make people listen. Similarly three-column headlines on the same theme appearing for seven days in the newspapers of New Year's week, indicate that the world is making up its mind to do something important some-where...