Word: hollowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Denver Post thinks any group of Americans looks "silly" when demonstrating against racial inequality [April 24]. Imagine the outrage of certain Boston housewives when all that tea was dumped in the harbor! Senator Humphrey's remarks about the "inconvenience" to World's Fair visitors ring very hollow...
...scorn rang a trifle hollow. Although he possesses a medical degree from the University of Dakar, Houphouet has been known to consult the omens of juju himself before making decisions, and even his name has a special juju meaning. In his native Baoule dialect, Houphouet means "pit of excrement"-a phrase intended to scare off devils...
What wonders of geological science are open to him who will behold "The Symmes theory of concentric spheres, demonstrating that the earth is hollow, habit-able within, and widely open about the poles" (Louisville, 1878) and C. Reed Teed's "The cellular cosmogony, or, The earth a concave sphere" (Chicago...
Like all satire, Costigan's humor dwells on the difference between appearance and reality, but the appearances he mocks are obviously hollow, Costigan thinks it's rich that muscular, America-firster Emil is a queer, that steely, sultry Mavis always leaves her door unlocked in hotels, and that shuffling, knock-kneed Edward is the sexual object of both public demigods. So, stars are phonies, so what...
There was plenty of evidence to prove that pious Soviet denials of anti-Jewish activity are hollow. The most topical was a book called Judaism Without Embellishment, published last year by the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. One cartoon from this "history" of Judaism showed a man with an exaggeratedly hooked nose described as a Zionist leader serving the "Hitlerite" invaders of the Ukraine...