Word: hollowness
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Fonda's explanation for posing for a photo with North Vietnamese antiaircraft gunners during the Vietnam War is hollow, self-serving and 33 years too late. To many Vietnam-era vets, she is and always will be a traitor...
During the chemists' eight-month hunt, they scouted 19th century riverboats and pawed through the dusty corners of historical museums. The most promising sources are objects that were originally sealed against moisture, such as navigational compasses, hourglasses, sextants and telescopes. Other possibilities include buried time capsules, hollow building cornerstones, miniature globes and sealed containers salvaged from a ship that sank in the Missouri River in the mid-1800s. Two venerable Connecticut companies, which have manufactured hollow brass military buttons since the War of 1812, have offered to supply buttons spanning two centuries. "This gives us samples from many different periods...
...announced. Most vulnerable are the 300,000 people, mostly fathers, who owe more than $1.3 billion in child support. For them, and for recipients of food stamps and other forms of welfare whose benefits would be halted if they won, the thrill of winning may prove to be hollow. FLORIDA Miami Virtue, Miami Vice...
...huge creature had to be remarkably light for its size, possibly only about 140 Ibs. Its wing bones were hollow tubes, and its body structure must have evolved for minimum weight. To emulate nature, MacCready's design team is using strong but lightweight parts made of carbon-fiber tubing and Kevlar cloth...
...image of Ethiopia is the face of famine. Hollow cheeks and desolate eyes are symbols of the country's present catastrophe. But they say nothing about its astonishing past. Today it is hard to recall Haile Selassie, King of Kings, Conquering Lion of Judah, who reigned as Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 until 1974, when he was deposed at the age of 82, less than a year before his death. A half-century ago, Haile Selassie was an international hero. In 1935, Ethiopia, also known as Abyssinia, consumed almost as much editorial space as it does today. But the world...