Word: husk
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...transplanted American versed in the babel of the Chicago commodity exchange, a merchant prince in wheat. Black Thursday reduced him to a bankrupt husk...
...Mental Jotto, the Free Analyst, Mr. Let's Find Out, leads the troops on 2 seventy-two-hour forced march through the lateral geniculate and the pyramids of Betz, no breathers allowed, until every human brain is reduced finally to a clump of dried seaweed inside a burnt-out husk and collapses, implodes, in one last crunch of terminal boredom. Mr. Pull! Mr. Push! Mr. Auricularis! . . . But how could the Black Panther Party of America know that...
...team also discovered old pottery fragments imprinted with rice husk markings. The shards indicate that the inhabitants of the region were cultivating rice even earlier than 3500 B.C.-long before it was grown in either India or China. "The Chinese," says Solheim. "have felt superior to the peoples beyond their borders. Now they will have to accept the fact that many of the peoples of Southeast Asia had a higher culture from which the Chinese borrowed for the foundations of their later civilization...
...would find ourselves considerably smaller than before; for another, the notion of "craning one's neck" would become absurd, since we possessed no such thing. Besides, it is only because we have necks, and because our existence is inconceivable without them, that we may permit ourselves to name the husk of the oboe its neck. Of course, I am aware just now that the phrase "tubular shape" has been replaced by the single word "husk." Why have I done this? Was it because I failed to keep in mind the original term for that elongated form which suggests...
...Lost," said Scott. "Nobody is lost anymore. The word has become a casket, a husk, a monument to various pretentions. That is the way with words. It's popular to be lost...