Word: fill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just eight days after Louisiana sent Huey Long's snub-faced son Russell to the U.S. Senate, Georgia voters triumphantly revived a political dynasty of their own. Trooping to the polls under a sizzling sun, they elected tobacco-chewing, red-gallused Herman ("Hummon") Talmadge, 35, to fill the last two years of tobacco-chewing, red-gallused Ol' Gene's term as governor. It was like old times again...
...piled into two French army trucks and headed for freedom. Four blocks away two Soviet jeeps, bristling with Tommy guns, brought them to a halt. Almost instantly 75 Soviet-sector police swarmed from the shadows of a nearby building. As the Germans were taken, dawn was just beginning to fill the skies above the ruins...
...worries. One is what Rumania's former masters, the Turks, called baksheesh. Said one Rumanian when the Reds took power: "The only honest government Rumania can have is one that has been in power long enough to give everyone a chance to fill his pockets. It's only after a Rumanian official has made enough money through graft to buy a house, educate his children, and keep a mistress or two, that he feels he can afford to be honest. The Reds are starting from scratch, and have a long...
Moreover, the order contained a new provision that would intensify the shortage. Companies with military orders can henceforth be allocated steel to fill those orders even though they may already have enough steel on hand. The House Small Business Committee insisted on this provision, so that little companies would not have to use up their slim inventories on military orders. But they would probably get less steel for consumer goods anyway; in the scramble for the shrinking supply of non-allocated steel, mills were apt to serve their biggest customers first...
...which pursues Gaelic wherever it may lead, had sent a man with a Dictaphone to take down what he said. Working at night after his chores are done, Angus has finished about 700 recordings, and still has 700 more to do. The commission expects to have enough stories to fill 20 volumes, may some day translate them into English...