Word: fill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Princeton Admissions Officer Anthony M. Cummings reported a yield of 53.2 percent. He added that the admissions office there will need to take only a few wait-listed students to fill a class...
Captain Bruce Weller explains that because last year's Crimson catcher was a third-string All-American pick, "Jim had some big shoes to fill...
Rosovsky drags Spence to the myriad committee meetings that fill his calendar, but he has not found the transition to be like a final dash to the finish line. "It's more like a relay race," says Rosovsky. "I'm still running, and I'm getting ready to pass the baton to Michael Spence, and then he'll start running...
...rueful about the previous decade or so. The material is so firmly under control that only a few strokes-Frances Landau's "slightly hyperthyroid face," Paul Christian's saying, "Sorry, I've made other plans" to people wishing him a nice day-are needed to fill out a character. One is left to ponder why Didion nudges the reader so, insisting that her story keeps getting away from her. The truth may be that she is reluctant to let go of it, and of times that were full of imaginative and moral possibilities for a novelist...
...mite too quaint, their courtship is spurred on by their mutual admiration of fruits. While Fraulein Schneider is greatly pleased with the apples and peaches, the pineapple proves quite overwhelming--such a gift"...it is not proper...it makes me blush." He insists "If I could, I would fill your entire room with pineapples!" Thus, they launch into "The Pineapple Song," a romantic anthem. While Massardo possesses an able voice, her transitions to her own numbers seem highly unnatural. Waxenburg has greater ease--his "Meeskite" receives a charming delivery...