Word: fill
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ground beneath the tornado is suddenly lost in a dark howling whirlpool. Then the truck is hit again with the full force of the hail. A shower of red dirt and debris tossed up by the tornado batters it. Minutes later, as Moore pulls into Covington, tornado sirens suddenly fill...
...Commons, Norman St. John-Stevas, is one who thinks so. "There is something like a vacuum in world leadership that John Paul might well be able to fill," says St. John-Stevas, a Catholic layman. He believes the world is "suffering from spiritual starvation and bereft of moral leadership. The gods of secularism and materialism have failed to satisfy, and mankind is looking for new perspectives...
...There are three. The first is the general notion in most countries, including the Communist countries, the developing and industrial countries alike, to consume more than we produce and to fill in the gap by printing money. [That leads to] inflationary monetary policies as well as inflationary fiscal policies...
...ruling by Peking authorities reportedly put a limit of $4,000 on the value of foreign "donations." Last month the official People's Daily harshly attacked self-indulgent cadres who have illicitly built "new super-luxuriant homes" and who "practice waste and extravagance and eat and drink their fill under all sorts of pretexts at the state's expense...
...chairmen aren't alarmed about a drop in the quality of students. Raymond Siever, chairman of the Geology Department, a department that accepted more than the 25-per-cent figure, says that while GSAS will undoubtedly continue to accept only the best applicants, the school may be tempted to fill a larger percentage of its positions with students who don't need financial assistance from the school...