Word: fill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little brat," that man recalls. "He'd lie down right there beside the tubs rather than do one stroke over what was absolutely necessary to earn his minimum wage. Aroused other lads to do the same. 'Why should we sweat our guts out to fill capitalist bellies?' he'd say. You could do nothing with...
...look for new orders. One consequence was the rise of what McGuire calls the Monstrous State, which "must enforce order when we no longer discipline ourselves." But nationalism only bloodily compounded the disorder in the Western World. Here was the great moral vacuum which Karl Marx sought to fill with his murky and monstrous new faith...
Butch Jordan's aggregation, minus Dave Smith, arrived in Syracuse late yesterday afternoon and then took a bus for Ithaca. Smith's knee and elbow injuries kept him from making the trip, and Dave Coombs will fill his 128-pound position...
Labor entered the fray with a proud record: not a single parliamentary seat lost in 46 by-elections since it came to power in 1945. To fill the seat left vacant when Hammersmith's Laborite W. T. Adams died last January, Labor had picked a 33-year-old ex-R.A.F. chaplain and Oxford don named Tom Williams. Tom's father was a Welsh miner who came home permanently crippled from World War I. His mother died when he was three. By scholarships and hard work, Tom fought his way through the Universities of Wales and Oxford, picking...
...Switzer will probably fill the hole in the lineup left by Murphy...