Word: fill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Maytag, a leading maker of home appliances, dubbed its first wringer "the hired girl" and cranked out some 2,000 machines a day during the peak production year of 1948. Workers put in 60-hour weeks to fill the demand for washers that cleaned the diapers for the baby boom. Now output is down to several dozen...
...trial for White on the charge of violating federal civil rights laws. The sentence could be life imprisonment. The board of supervisors and Feinstein have endorsed Wahl's proposal. Said Feinstein recently: "The wounds are still very, very fresh." Harry Britt, the man named in 1978 to fill Milk's vacant seat on the board and like Milk a gay activist, said, "The legal system broke down in San Francisco. The federal law is designed to deal with situations where local law enforcement failed on a question of basic values." But Deputy Mayor Rotea Gilford opposes the idea...
Harvard professors have stories to tell about their summer vacations that would delight any expository writing instructor or fill hours of fourth-grade show-and-tell...
...frustrating to talk to Aaron about his summer vacation because it seems as if the best part of it is yet to come. Aaron could fill a dozen "required essays of three paragraphs" with the activities of the past 12 weeks: he completed work on a five-year diary project, and he supervised the ongoing publication of the new Library of America books collecting the writings of major American authors...
...disappearance makes a longstanding gap even harder to fill. But the fact that such an experiment worked for a while, and under better conditions could have lasted, reemphasizes the need to continue attacking the problem along such imaginative lines...