Word: fill
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Horner explained that the trustees chose to rename South House after Cabot in part because of his earlier connections to the House. Cabre Hall, one of the six buildings which compare the Sollo complex, with named for Fill Layman Cabol, in cousin of Cabot's father...
...rejection of a Presidential nominee to a Cabinet or Cabinet level post has historically been a rate thing, and well it should. The President has a general right to have his own people fill his senior positions. But when that right gets bastardized by the appointment of someone who lacks all qualification for his jobs-a la a Kenneth Adelman or a William Clark-or of someone who has demonstrated an avowed antagonism to the principles he is supposed to serve-a la a James Watt and now Edwin Meese-the Republic is diminished. And Congress must step...
...prominent Swiss psychiatrist and the mother of three adopted children from Madagascar, Uchtenhagen has a touch of the hausfrau that, it was thought, would make her acceptable to her male colleagues in government. Convinced that Uchtenhagen was well qualified for the job, the Social Democratic Party nominated her to fill a vacancy left when one of the two Social Democrats on the Federal Council resigned. Under the unwritten rules of the magic formula, Uchtenhagen should have been a shoo...
...Social Democrats, however, underestimated the resistance of male politicians in a country that did not even allow women to vote in national elections until 1971, and that still does not in certain local contests. Meeting in the smoke-filled bars of Bern to plot their strategy, members of Parliament (in which women fill only 25 out of 246 seats) grumbled that Uchtenhagen was "too emotional," "unable to stand the strain of high office," "too elegant" and "not enough of a mother figure." When they returned to the lower-house chamber after their informal evening debate, they rejected Uchtenhagen...
Sometimes a dominant color, like the striking of a great gong, will fill a whole painting as surely as it does a Matisse: so with Moroni's extraordinary Portrait of Gian Gerolamo Grumelli. The picture has its allegorical furniture. The ivy clinging to the ruin suggests clan loyalty, the broken statue (whose foot remains in the niche) symbolizes the passage of time, and the motto on the bas-relief, "Better the follower than the forerunner," is a manifesto of conservatism. Yet what counts visually is the brocaded red figure, glowing with arrested vitality against the gray ground...