Word: fill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...play the lottery game frequently pick Houses they really don't want to spend three years in, knowing that this strategy will keep them away from the dreaded Quad. A Kirkland House sophomore, for example, says she knew she'd get in to the River House that didn't fill until the second round of the lottery yet admits now that she feels alienated from the social mainstream...
Every spring, when wool sweaters and scarves are shelved, outdoor tables replace ice sculptures in front of Au Bon Pain, and thoughts of love return to dreamy eyed collegiates, a host of worried questions fill the Yard air--questions such as, How far will I have to walk to class next year? What is the neck index in that House? Are there really 300 violin-playing, Pac Man-addicted, biochem majors over there...
...Great, fill that box. Make those Terriers overconfident. Play shorthanded for 4:10, two men down for two of those minutes. Five yourselves...
...other hand, as the Pope understands Vatican II, the church should let the laity work out policy details and fill public offices. The Pope has praised and encouraged lay organizations that attempt to put Catholic ideals into practice in everyday life. Two of his conservative favorites are Opus Dei, a tightly disciplined international organization of 74,000, and Comunione e Liberazione, a less structured group with about 60,000 adherents in Italy and growing numbers in Europe and Latin America...
...trend that aids such an ambition is the acute shortage of priests. Already thousands of women fill in by doing chaplains' work, counseling, Bible readings, indeed, all the tasks of a priest except consecrating the Eucharist, hearing confession, confirming members and administering last rites. Some feminists complain that such assistants are underpaid and exploited, but the more important criticism is that they are still forbidden to conduct the central rituals of the faith...