Word: fill
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...politics went on. Who will fill out the remaining four years of Humphrey's term? Three Minnesota Congressmen-Democrats Donald Fraser and James Oberstar and Republican Bill Frenzel-are gearing up for a special election to be held in November, concurrent with the general election. But Governor Rudy Perpich must appoint a successor to serve between now and November...
Translated, it all means that film makers have discovered that kids are the ones who fill the movie theater, and they love rock music and fantasy. That inescapable fact has led to an obvious conclusion, and the result is four blockbusting rock-fantasy musicals for 1978: The Wiz, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, Hair and Grease. In fact, not since the '40s, the heyday of the movie musical, have so many horns been tooted or so many dollars been spent to put movies and music together. "The old musicals worked because they were contemporary in their...
...Government Department has postponed its search for a professor to fill an endowed chair in modern Japanese politics, and appointed an associate professor in that field instead...
...legitimate Congress Party. In her 45-minute speech, she attacked the policies of Morarji Desai, who had succeeded her as Prime Minister after her humiliating defeat in last March's election. She also told her supporters that they should be "prepared to go to the jails and fill them in large numbers"-a prospect that was likely to become as unpopular with politicians as her mass sterilization program had proved to be with voters...
...building could fill a page in The Guinness Book of World Records. The largest enclosed stadium in the world, it boasts a 9.7-acre roof, 9,000 tons of air conditioning, 32 escalators, ten elevators and 88 rest rooms. It has served more sit-down dinners in one place than any other caravansary in history: 65,000 meals in three days (Creole chicken, stuffed flounder and meat loaf) to the Lutheran Youth Gathering in August 1976. It has the world's largest roll-up rug, a 126,85 l-sq.-ft., zippered greensward of AstroTurf that the locals fondly...