Word: fill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only aspect of this century-old anecdote that might be dated is Adams' surprise. This year, when Harvard sifted through 12,843 applications to fill 1,605 places in the class of '93, undoubtedly many of these would-be students (and their parents) were motivated by equally crass considerations. Popular wisdom asserts that getting a pedigree from an Ivy League school is worth more in terms of future income and social standing than attending any of several dozen other academically rigorous colleges and universities...
When new Assistant Professor of History Ellen Fitzpatrick taught her first regular course at Harvard this week, the registrar expected the class would fill a 12-person seminar room in Sever Hall...
Gorbachev continued to fill the ruling body with his own men, elevating the new KGB chief, Vladimir Kryuchkov, and the head of economic planning, Yuri Maslyukov, to full membership...
...exhausive account of the disinformation contained in the ad would probably fill this page, so I will list only a few examples...
...added that if the apathy that now characterizes international attitudes toward conflict in Lebanon extends to the Arab-Israeli struggle, terrorism may begin to fill the void...