Word: fill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seats are assigned to each electoral district, according to its size. The total number of votes cast (e.g., 500,000), is divided by the total number of seats (e.g., 10), giving an electoral quotient (50,000). A party polling 160,000 votes of the total in its district can fill three quotients, i.e., get three seats. The spare 10,000 votes are diverted to a national pool where they are merged with spare votes from other districts until there are enough to fill another quotient...
Last week an old man called "Barba," a patriarch of the mountain town of Kalav-ryta, sighed and said: "The blood my family has shed in Kalavryta would fill three whole barrels...
...second floor of the palatial U.S. Embassy in Rio de Janeiro last week, the spacious, air-conditioned ambassador's office was being readied for a new tenant. Earnest, dynamic William D. Pawley, who resigned as ambassador last month, had checked out-private airplane and all. To fill the $25,000-a-year job, President Truman had picked 53-year-old Career Diplomat Herschel Vespasian Johnson...
...poor Dr. Mitchell, successful psychiatrist that he is, is stumped by his own marital troubles. Neither he nor his wife fill the bill for each other, something everyone but the doctor seems to realize. When he finally becomes aware that he covets another woman, the wife conveniently dies and in the glow of his new love the hero recovers his emotional and spiritual balance...
Unlike earlier College jazz programs, which usually featured a single name artist backed by student players, Leverett's concert brings half a dozen professional jazzmen to fill in the background music...