Word: fill
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Manter Hall still operates a tutoring program of sorts today. On Saturday mornings, students fill the school to take classes in reading and special preparation for the college boards. About one-quarter of those who attend these sessions are Manter Hall students. The school also operates a similar program over the summer...
Henry Ford II came with 246 others for Henry Kissinger's lunch in his eighth-floor salon. The auto prince smiled and burbled with cheer as he was plucked from his assigned place at one of the lesser tables and put at the head table to fill a vacancy. His handsome wife moved from friend to friend with smiles and short, warm busses...
...This has resulted in an "ideological schizophrenia" that blocks solutions to such critical problems as the inequitable distribution of wealth and undermines the legitimacy of corporations. His solution: bring business and Government into a more harmonious relationship by federally chartering the 2,000 largest companies, then enfranchising them to fill community needs. Under this scheme, for example, Con Edison would work with Government to plan power needs. Ultimately, such community requirements would determine the controls on the corporations. Ironically, suggests Lodge, the outcome could be less intervention by Government than there is now in the affairs of U.S. business...
...handwriting is on the wall. Not really, though, because there's another line of sports imagination which would fill the bill for today's game in Harvard's favor. And that's the Substitute Hero syndrome...
...shadows of horrendous husbands. Yet feminists have never embraced Drabble as a spokesperson because her heroines too often stumble from orthodoxy. They may leave their husbands-but they cherish their children, refusing to feel demeaned while changing nappies. They eagerly have affairs-but trust that the new men will fill an emptiness in their lives. Coasting through her mid-30s, Frances Wingate has achieved everything that her predecessors lacked...