Word: fill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Army patrols still make periodic rounds, and Moslem taxi drivers must have their passengers fill out special destination forms if they are to be taken outside the city limits. But in Algiers' dark, conspiratorial bistros, the talk these days is more likely to be about "les affaires" than assassinations. De Gaulle has made the army his chief economic arm in raising Moslem living standards, and fat army contracts for roads and schools-plus Saharan oil investments-have spread a new prosperity across Algeria...
...Military dictatorships are more and more likely to take over in those countries to fill political vacuums," Rupert Emerson, professor of Government, told alumni assembled in Fogg Museum. Along with Robert Bowie, director of the Center for International Studies, and Edward S. Mason, George F. Baker Professor of Economics, Emerson noted the difficulties faced by the 750 million people in nations freed from colonialism since World...
University Commencement exercises--hallowed by some 308 years of tradition--will fill the morning for over 15,000 graduating students, members of 12 former classes attending annual reunions, and the friends or families of both...
...Light Infantry Ball should fill a satisfactory number of evenings for readers interested in a leisurely tour of the war-torn Confederacy, complete with side trips into murder, miscegenation and skulduggery in the higher echelons of the rebel government...
...times E.D.T. tranquilizer; guests are Tony Bennett, Teresa Brewer, and the Four Lads, who will fill in for Como this summer...