Word: hollows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with students from Ludwig-Maximilian's University, Germany's largest, with 22,000 enrollment. In bohemian bistros like the See-rose, where Kandinsky once caroused, the talk runs the gamut from Johnson (Uwe) to Johnson (Lyndon), while the beer flows on and on. But unlike the emaciated, hollow-eyed beatniks of Paris and New York, Munich's young bohemians exude a ruddy outdoor glow...
...Johnson Administration has acted with hollow petulance in cutting off military aid to three countries and suspending it to two others for trading with Cuba. Although the effects of suspending aid to Morocco and Spain are as yet undetermined, the removal of a piddling $100,000 to France, England; and Yugoslavia will have little or no impact on their trading policies...
...people," he says, comparing himself to great evangelists of the past, like St. Augustine and St. Francis of Assisi. But he quickly adds, "I'm the least of them all. . . . I shouldn't be mentioned in the same breath with them. . .I'm not worthy. . . ." The words have the hollow sound of a statement which once was passionately sincere but which had been eroded by constant flattery until its speaker had come almost to disbelieve...
...last week, Zimmermann made like an airplane again-a jet this time. By the time he reached the bottom of the first gentle schuss, he was already traveling at more than 40 m.p.h., and a force of several G's tore at his body as he hit the hollow where Australian Ross Milne lost control in practice and hurtled to his death. Next came a treacherous se ries of bumps: unlike more timid competitors, who hugged the surface, using their legs as shock absorbers, Zimmermann boldly catapulted over the bumps with great, bounding leaps of 45 ft. or more...
...sided pyramid shape that provides the greatest strength for the least volume (or weight). In a sphere made of such interlocked tetrahedrons, the weight load applied to any point was transmitted widely throughout the structure, producing a phenomenal strength-to-weight ratio. Bucky produced his dome by cutting a hollow sphere in half...