Word: fill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Galvin, who is one of four state legislators running for U.S. Representative in the Eighth Congressional District, told a dozen Harvard students last night that he sees his work in the Massachusetts legislature and the role he hopes to fill in Congress as making law without making noise...
That lively reception was rudely offset the next day in the southeastern city of Madras, where the Pope planned to meet with non-Christian religious leaders. Of the 300 invited, only 48 showed up. Embarrassed local church functionaries had to round up community leaders to fill out the audience. Later in the day, however, more than 500,000 people joined the Pope on a beach for a sunset Mass...
Other peculiarities cropped up. In the Manila dockside slum of Tondo, teachers at the Imelda Marcos Elementary School complained that they were being asked to recruit ten voters each for Marcos. Well before the voting began, Marcos operatives in northerly Quezon City were openly offering indigents money to fill out their ballots in advance...
Once on the air, the anchormen's chief problem was how to fill the time. They played prerecorded videotapes of the ill-fated astronauts, interviewed their own correspondents in Cape Canaveral and elsewhere, trotted out scale models of the shuttle to describe how it func tioned and scrambled to round up "experts" who might be able to explain what had happened. ABC got former Astro naut Gene Cernan to its Houston studios. CBS brought on Leo Krupp, a former test pilot for Rockwell International, and NBC recruited former Astronaut Donald ("Deke") Slayton...
...high-ranking officials have access to prostitutes, porn films and a varied sex life. But most of the population finds itself hemmed in sexually. Nearly every relationship is monitored by neighbors and subject to fevered interpretation. Getting away from prying eyes is so difficult that at nightfall parks fill up with courting pairs, and adventurous lovers couple on the ground...