Word: fill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Richard Hackman, a specialist in organizational behavior, would fill a tenured opening left by Professor of Social Relations Robert F. Bales, who has moved into semi-retirement because of poor health...
Directors and producers interviewed yesterday said ways of easing the shortage could include putting plays on a staggered schedule, or having actors fill multiple roles within a play...
Anne Mimi '88 of Adams House, who is acting in three productions, said directors this fall are being understanding about scheduling difficulties caused by the lack of actors. "Also, the productions are larger this year so there are more small roles to fill. An actor cast in several small roles can generally handle it," Mimi said...
...horrors of this establishment bring out the best in Alice. There is no electricity, heat, water or plumbing. Plastic buckets of excrement left by previous squatters fill an upstairs room. The local borough council plans to tear the place down. Alice wheedles bureaucrats, placates the police, steals substantial sums of money from her father's house and later from his place of business. Before long, the new lodging is neat and shipshape. Her comrades, busy using their dole allowances to take taxis to picket lines and protest demonstrations, seem to appreciate the availability of hot food and the absence...
...answer they asked again, and again. The Swiss, pressured by the Soviets, asked the same question of the U.S. team. Then the Soviets requested a phone line and a typewriter in the American press center, wherever it might be. Pravda, TASS, Izvestiya and the other Soviet outlets undoubtedly would fill and color their summit coverage with the overheard irreverences of American correspondents chortling over Reagan's malapropisms, Nancy's dresses and Secretary of State George Shultz's tennis. That's the lingo of freedom that Soviet eavesdroppers love to distort. The U.S. team, wise in the ways of media, suggested...