Word: fill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Demeter, 23, seemed too weak and skinny to be a big leaguer, but the Dodgers signed him for a paltry $800 bonus on the chance he might fill out and develop power. It seemed wasted money last season, when Demeter, a right-handed batter, hit a sickly .189 for Los Angeles in 43 games with only five home runs, eight runs batted in. But this year the beefed-up (6 ft. 4 in., 185 Ibs.) Demeter is suddenly a slugging terror, in his first ten games had six homers...
...point in the movie, a hero is defined as someone who comes to fill the needs of others. Filling the small needs of many, Manolios approaches the stature of Christ. To put someone on the screen, posing him as Christ to the point of naming him, is blatantly presumptuous. But the fact that Dassin does it successfully absolves him of presumption...
...figure charts (also used by other chartists) he notes each change of a point or more in a stock (½ point if the stock is under 20). By the pattern thus established, he determines whether a stock is going to move straight up or down or merely back and fill. In an upward move, he forecasts the "objective," i.e., the price at which the stock should be sold. In a move down, he forecasts the level where it should be bought...
Although plagued all spring by injuries, the club now has only one man out, forward Terry Lenzner. Ted Fremgen will move over from his wing forward slot to fill in for Lenzner, and David Kiely will be in Fremgen's usual position. This year's football captain, Shag Shaunessy, will also be in the starting lineup...
...better prep schools and high schools, "letting Exeter do our geographical distribution for us." Or it could pick fifty reliable secondary schools throughout the country to supply students. Or it could ignore such things as "character" and "initiative" completely, sorting applications in an IBM machine in order to fill predetermined places...