Word: fill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MISSED opportunities and blunders in Melvin H. King's campaign could fill an encyclopedia of ways to loso a mayoral election...
...reassuring: "It looks like a dogfight, but there is a lot of sharing too. People help each other." The Lindsays have been regulars for 20 years. The 12-ft. butcher-block counter they bought today for $50 will go under, or on, or behind the piles of salvage that fill their own basement and the basement in the house next door...
...There have been steady increases for quite a while in the number of people who want to pursue continuing education courses," he said, adding, "Only during the last eight years, though, I think, have we expanded our programs to fill the demand...
...essays outlining a student's potential academic, extracurricular, and personal contributions to Harvard. Even a professional artist cannot be expected to finish a portrait after only an hour sitting. If he wants to do a complete job, the first session would be spent sketching what he later intends to fill in after many more sittings. And the admissions office is not necessarily dealing with professional interviewers. The alumni interview fulfills several functions. It is sometimes the only contact a potential student has with a representative of Harvard: many applicants live too far away or do not have enough money...
...Congress is 535 shattered pieces of political authority, most of whom are frightened and bewildered, reverting to the safe ground of doubt and complaint. The presidential candidates scrutinize and wait, ready to pounce. White House aides bicker among themselves, tempers superheated, judgment clouded by fatigue. Leaks and counterleaks fill the air. The choices for action in both places are not between good and bad, but between terrible and dreadful...