Word: fill
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there is any slight uneasiness, you can sense it in the half-empty locker rooms. Last season's squad had unusual depth: enough oarsmen to fill three and a half boats produced an undefeated JV and a 3V which beat many varsity boats. This year Harvard will have one less boatful of oarsmen. Three varsity members have graduated and the loss of last year's star sophomore Ollie Scholle due to a knee injury may take its toll on the overall speed of the squad...
...being "estranged from the Black community as a whole" in its direction, which Mr. Horsey sees as a "rejection of the Black past," this is only half-false. NSCAR certainly could stand more contact with the Black community, particularly school parents, but Mr. Harper's proposal, if initiated, would fill this said. Also, there are presently efforts to move the NSCAR office into or around the Black community in Boston. As many NSCAR people speak of modeling the desegregation movement after the "success of the civil rights movement of the '60s," there is little if any "rejection of the Black...
...Right now, it looks like we can fill every event there is," he continued...
There is enough ambiguity in Jean Cocteau's writing to let you fill in your own meanings. Still, a play's last moment shouldn't be entirely disjointed. The Loeb Ex version is good fun, but don't lose track of the script's peculiar artifice if your lover drags you down there...
...Omission. The search for work is intense. So many job seekers want to enlist in the armed forces that recruiters have raised admission standards, and the Air Force even turns down some men with master's degrees. All over the U.S. employers find they can fill jobs that pay only $2 or $2.25 an hour for gas station attendants, security guards, dishwashers. Those openings are often grabbed up by people who used to earn twice or three times as much. To get any job at all, some people are downplaying their talents and training, hoping to avoid the stigma...