Word: fill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...North, but my roots are solidly in the South. In the summers we drove south to Canton, Miss., where my mother was from. My father would always ask, whenever we stopped for gas, if they had toilets for colored. If they said yes, then he would say, 'Fill up the tank.' If they said no, he would say thank you and drive on. Once we were outside New Orleans, and this day they said yes, so I jumped out of the car and went around back, and I found nothing except a hole in the ground. I told my father...
Even without two wrestlers from last season's 10-8 squad (3-3 Ivies), Alex Konovalchik at 190 lbs. and Scott Beck at 142 lbs., the Crimson has ample young talent to fill in their wrestling shoes...
...schools] in these areas, they can't find warm bodies to fill the [teaching] places," said Whitney Tilson '89, one of the group's seven co-founders...
...move to strengthen the role of the NIH director comes at a time when the Bush Administration has been criticized for its inability to fill the position. William Danforth, Sullivan's first choice for the post, withdrew his name from consideration after questions from the White House concerning his stance on abortion...
...director of the Family Support Administration, withdrew from consideration after persistent questions from the White House about his philosophy on abortion. So did William Danforth, whom Sullivan wanted to head the NIH. Sullivan says that while there are other reasons the NIH director's job has been hard to fill, including questions about salary and the Institutes' structure, the White House's phone grilling of Danforth "made a bad situation almost impossible...