Word: hollowness
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...worried are waiting. They await the results of more soil and water tests, and the results of more precisely targeted health studies. Most of all, naturally, they await results at the site itself. They want a permanent cleanup, says Ross, "so that we can all go back into Sleepy Hollow and rest assured that nothing is wrong." Curiously, not even the local activists plan to move away. "Where am I going to move," asks Abbott, "that it's not going to crop up in my backyard again? Where is safe...
...personnel carrier was thought to be vulnerable to armor-piercing slugs, which police said were being fired from the house. Delay, Sambor said, would have increased the chance that Move would place explosives in tunnels they claimed to have dug and "blow the block." (This reason looked a bit hollow after the fire, when investigators discovered no tunnels. To explain the absence of heavier weapons in the debris of the Move house, police still theorized that members had been able in some unknown way to move back and forth to other dwellings on Osage.) Finally, police feared that waiting would...
That is the assurance given to student divestiture advocates who will soon be subject to CRR disciplinary consideration. However, no procedural safeguards protect these students from unfair actions, rendering the promise of fairness hollow and meaningless...
Prisoners of a different kind are the inmates--mostly former government officials and military officers (an estimated 10,000 countrywide)--of a showcase "re-education center" outside Ho Chi Minh City that is prettily landscaped with lotus ponds and lyrical gardens. The frightened-looking men, sallow-faced and hollow-eyed, have been forbidden to answer serious questions. Off to one side, however, one of them drops his guard for a moment. His crime, he says, was trying to flee the country; his punishment, he adds, is just...
...Smith's second album (or second point five Hatful of Hollow contained only one side's worth of original material) shows once more how quickly a band can succumb to it's own worst tendencies. Their latest, Meat is Murder, rails against all of Morrissey's petoutrages; nasty schoolmasters, abusive parents, and carniverousness. The title track epitomizes everything wrong with this record album. With the mooing of cows in the background (electronically processed to sound like singing whales) Morissey says...