Word: hollows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...election night the candidates were dead tired, hollow-eyed and worried. As the first returns began to trickle into Milwaukee from Wisconsin's countryside, Candidate Hubert Humphrey began to brighten up. The magic numbers were going all his way. By 9 p.m. Humphrey held a 6,500-vote lead over his rival Jack Kennedy. In his Pfister Hotel suite, Kennedy slumped in a chair watching television; Brother Bob hovered anxiously over a telephone, jotting down the reports of local legmen. Then, slowly, the numbers began to change, and by 11 p.m. Kennedy was out in front. At that point...
...deductions, voluntary construction of atomic fallout shelters in homes and commercial buildings. Originally advanced on a mandatory basis, Rockefeller's deadly earnest shelter plan was viewed as political poison by assemblymen, who sent it back to committee amid hoots of laughter that might some day have a hollow ring...
...smoking is dangerous and often painful for heart-attack victims was explained by researchers from Wayne State University (see EDUCATION). Patients volunteered to let them work two thin plastic tubes into their hearts and put a hollow needle into an arm artery. After three cigarettes, blood pressure and oxygen readings showed that the heart had to work much harder than usual but got little or no extra oxygen. Among the test's financial backers: the Tobacco Industry Research Committee...
...Russia's delegate, impassive Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian Zorin, should give more study to "our plan for general and complete disarmament." Exasperated, U.S. Delegate Eaton rose to complain that Zorin had used that phrase "for 135 times since the start of the conference. Let's quit hollow words and get to real steps and measures." Zorin's reply was surprisingly mild, and the West was heartened when the Poles and Czechs politely asked for more details of the Western plan...
Under Pressure. At 49, Cousteau looks as if he might be either an esthete or an ascetic, and he is somewhere in between. His face, hollow-cheeked, cleft by the lean curve of an aristocratic nose and scoured by furrows, might have been carved by the sea itself. His body is gnarled. "My!" said one fluttery female admirer, "have you been shrunk by pressure...