Word: fill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...race to the fill the seat of retiring five-term Senator Barry Goldwater. Republican John McCain was the winner. In a tight three-way race, Republican Evan Meacham won the governship...
...many campaigns to succeed Speaker of the House Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill Jr. as Representative from the Eighth Congressional District especially attracted many students to fill the ranks at every level, including paid staff positions...
...uses of old words are bubbling up in almost every sector of American business. Wall Streeters talk about fallen angels (out-of-favor stocks at bargain prices), shark repellants (strategies used by companies to ward off takeover attempts) and fill or kill (an order to a broker that must be canceled if it cannot be completely and immediately executed). Management experts speak of skunk costs (money that cannot be recouped when a project is aborted), tin cupping (when one corporate division begs for management support) and deadheading (bypassing a senior employee in order to promote someone more junior). Computer aficionados...
...stockade in New Hampshire, operated from the spring of 1944 to the spring of 1946. Some of the 250 prisoners were captured in North Africa early in the war and were members of a division formed of leftist political dissidents routed out of German prisons and sent to fill out Rommel's army. But those who returned to Stark, tracked down over the past four years by Allen Koop, a professor of American and European history at Colby-Sawyer College in New London, N.H., had been ordinary soldiers, 18 or 19 years old, captured by U.S. troops in Normandy...
Maybe you did not think of decorating your college application with a comic strip, or of writing a poem to fill your personal essay space...