Word: fill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little holiday with husband Horst. "I've only had three weeks' vacation since I was 18," she says, "and I need a rest. Ach! I don't know where I get the strength." In Munich she likes to lounge among the Barock madonnas that fill her pretty white villa on the fashionable Pienzenauerstrasse. She calls her husband Goldschädtzchen (Little Golden Treasure), and when people come to visit, she gazes at him adoringly, or licks her fingers, smooths his thinning hair and murmurs, "Horst, am I pretty?" But Horst plays glum. One day she gurgled: "Guess...
...Another college found in June that it needed 100 more freshmen, and the admissions officer was told to find them. What could a poor admissions officer do to fill those places at such a time...
Congratulations on your fine Jack Kennedy story. It is his "independent voting record" which sells me on the fact that he is the only American who can fill the shoes of Dwight Eisenhower. Who gives a damn whether he's a Democrat or Republican, Catholic or Presbyterian...
...sorrows, pains, griefs and tears." Since then (circa 400 B.C.), says famed Neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield, a few highly localized parts of the brain have been shown to control vision, hearing, speech, some physical sensations and most movements, but by far the greater part of the brain remains unexplored. To fill in one of the blanks on the cerebral map, Dr. Penfield has just offered evidence to the National Academy of Sciences that parts of the brain work like an audio-video tape recorder, preserving the details of everything a man sees and hears...
...African bishop of modern times. Swirling round his diocese in a 1956 Chevrolet and a cloud of dust. Bishop Kiwanuka, 58, oversees the work of 58 African priests, plus 15 white priests who work as teachers in schools and seminaries, are being replaced as native priests are trained to fill their posts. Many Masaka seminarians take specialist courses outside Africa after their ordination, and Bishop Kiwanuka himself hopes to make his second visit to the U.S. next year to study sociology. His biggest problem: Moslem competition. Says he: "Both African and Asian Moslems in the diocese accumulate wealth and slowly...