Word: fill
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...follow a similar pattern. First an eager attempt to combine ten-hour days in sweat shops with night school or high school, then surrender to the necessities of existence, to marriage, to children, and finally, in most cases, to prosperity. Here the stories fade, but you can still fill in the details-vacations in Florida, presidencies of ladies auxiliaries, retirement. The metamorphosis from rebellious young woman, clamoring for education, to the more familiar image of Jewish grandmother, gloating over snapshots of her grandchildren, seems complete. But no, not quite-many of these women, free at last, go back to school...
...SURPRISINGLY, these ten grandmothers have quite a bit to say: pogroms, revolutions, stormy trans-Atlantic crossings, continual struggles for existence and self- fulfillment fill their memories. Coming from a wide variety of backgrounds, they emerge, if not as flesh-and-blood individuals, then at least as something much more than stereotypes...
Griffiths added he will seek a clarification from CHUL on Wednesday. "Although I still oppose transfers to fill vacant space, I would favor one-to-one transfers since such switches make people happier without changing the composition of the House," he said...
Sitting here at my table in my 200-year-old cottage, no freeway noise, my doors unlocked, a crackling fire to warm by. gazing at the White Mountains of northern New Hampshire, which fill my windows-a view broken only by an occasional farmhouse-I read your article about Americans on the move (by kerosene lamp) with much amusement. I am a quite content "refugee...
...just stunning." The main set is the vast, gleaming city room just outside Bradlee's sleek, glass-walled office. Warner Bros, spent $450,000 to recreate it, right down to the wastebaskets, on their Burbank, Calif., lot; then they had real Washington Post trash shipped west to fill those baskets. The stars were pretty stunning too. Bradlee's young charges were transformed into gorgeous Robert Redford and sexy Dustin Hoffman. Jason Robards, playing Bradlee, just about ran away with the movie. Robards played him larger-than-life, carrying the repute of his paper and the fate of the nation...