Word: fill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Democrat Steve Severn, who lost his bid for Iowa's Second Congressional District seat in 1980, remembers his first trip to Washington to solicit campaign funds. "I found myself in line with candidates from all over," he says. Each PAC asked the money-hungry hopefuls to fill out multiple-choice questionnaires on issues important to the PAC. If a candidate's views measured up, and he looked like a good shot to win, he got the money. Says Severn: "The process made me sick...
Given these circumstances, the common practice for reporters like me was to fill notebooks with details so inconsequential that perhaps one would have stumbled upon an "exclusive" that no one else had thought of. For example...
Basil Ransom remains equally taken with Verena. Beyond her fiery, teary feminist rhetoric, Ransom finds in her all he wants in a wife. While the girl is intrigued by the handsome stranger, and enjoys flirting as much as prosletyzing. Basil's intrusions into the idyll fill Olive--his distant cousin, it turns out--with morbid jealousy. The crossfire of affection, jealousy, and sheer emotional blackmail swirling around Verena intensifies, as Basil follows the women to the Vineyard, insistent that she allow him to replace Olive, the cause, and just about everything else in her life...
This was the meet's highest drama, although U.S. men's relay teams also won their remaining races in world-record times. Swimmers continued to file in, full of resolve or resignation, and to fill the panic time before their races by ritualistically kneeling to splash water on their faces, and then slowly peeling off many layers of sweat clothes. Most of the men were powerfully built and conventionally handsome, and most of the women were spectacularly graceful. A brass band played busily for their entrances and exits, and the sun shone on them through a sky that...
Chances are there will decision no long-term damage on any side. The homogenized harmony of the Miss America Pageant continues. Suzette Charles, 21, first runner-up Williams last September, has gracefully stepped in to fill out the remaining weeks of the reign...