Word: fill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lunch and dinner, students will fill in circles on computer cards, indicating their Presidential preference, House affiliation, ethnic backround, and graduation year...
When day breaks, church bells ring in Temple, Texas, founded in 1881 astride the rail line south of Waco and not far from modern-day Fort Hood, the largest military base in the free world. Temple's churches fill on Sunday, and as the white sun climbs higher, hymns are sung and sermons spoken. Down at the Frank W. Mayborn Civic and Convention Center, parishioners of Temple Bible Church finish their prayers and stream out into the noonday heat, and the bright light that bears down on the town, bleaching its low buildings against the prairie...
...consequence was that by the mid-1970s there was a vacuum that the Sicilian Mafia was all too eager to fill. As law-enforcement authorities have suspected-and Buscetta has now confirmed-Palermo has replaced Marseilles as the center of Europe's heroin business. Authorities estimate that some two tons of pure heroin (worth billions of dollars at street prices) are produced in Palermo each year from opium smuggled into Italy from the Golden Crescent of Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Heroin can often be bought in New York City's Times Square 48 hours after it leaves Sicily...
Elisabeth Kopp, 47, last week became the first woman ever elected to Switzerland's ruling Federal Council. With 124 votes out of a possible 241 , Kopp was chosen by the Federal Assembly to fill a vacancy on the seven-member council. She will become President of Switzerland some time within the next seven years; the top job is rotated yearly among the panel's members...
...When I first saw him," says Whitaker, "just the way he moved, the way he talked, his reactions-I knew he could play baseball." Gold gloves were predicted, but nobody expected Trammell to fill out from 155 Ibs. into a powerful...