Word: fill
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This leads to the inevitable conclusion that before Perini Construction dug this hole and started to fill it in, they or someone else must have dug another hole of approximately the same size in the same place and filled that once in too. By some standards this would be considered wasteful duplication, but allowing for the hypothetical mental aberration imposed during residency in the armed forces and taking into account the incalculable enjoyment bestowed upon passers-by as they gazed at work-in-progress, the individuals involved deserve praise rather than criticism...
...Before robbing the Indians of Graig Nettles in 1974, the Yankees tried for years to fill a gaping hole at third base. For five points, which of the following players did not hold the Yankee job at the hot corner in the years before Nettles...
...White Sox plan to fill a hole at third base in a most uncommon way this season: they will play Mike Squires there, making him the first left-handed infielder in 47 years...
...White House to ask the President to order the FBI to take that bug out of my ear." U.S. intelligence agencies, he rambled on, had planted a "bug in my ear that transmits everything I think across the country." The President, Mahonski concluded, "had certain elements of this society fill me full of dangerous drugs . . . that take my judgment like the Communists would, and ruined my life." Mahonski was charged with assault on a federal officer and sent to St. Elizabeths Hospital for a 30-day psychiatric evaluation...
Turner's chances will turn on his performance in a series of Liberal debates over the next three months. Having avoided the press for nearly nine years, he was clearly anxious last week to fill in some of the gaps. He discussed his chairmanship of two troubled venture-capital companies and cited unemployment, rather than inflation, as Canada's "major economic and social problem." He also said he would seek to lower the country's $24 billion budget deficit, though not by slashing social welfare programs. As for those who promise such bromides as "new ideas...