Word: fill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During his years in power, Begin so thoroughly dominated Israeli life by the sheer force of his personality that his sudden exit from politics was sure to usher in a period of instability. Shamir will not find it easy to fill the void left by the indomitable Begin, who could make peace with Egypt and wage war in Lebanon. But Begin's successor will probably be a transitional leader, as unlikely to respond to bold initiatives as to launch them. That will make it all the more difficult for him to sort out Begin's troubled, and troublesome...
...world knew very little about former KGB Chief Yuri Andropov when ic succeeded Leonid Brezhnev as General Secretary of the Soviet Union's Communist Party last November. Almost immediately, a gaggle of professional and amateur Kremlinologists scrambled to fill the information gap. Thus far all but one of their books have been either disappointingly speculative or based on stale data. The exception is this lively and provocative portrait by Zhores Medvedev, an exiled Soviet scientist living in London. Medvedev, 57, relied in part on the scholarly skills and resources of his twin brother, Roy Medvedev, who has remained...
...Kans.-a cluster of trailer homes and collapsing limestone houses, seemingly marooned in the vast rolling prairie-a six-member team of architects and students sits in the township hall, patiently listening to reminiscences by some of the village's 50 remaining residents. The team is trying to fill in a "municipal fingerprint" of Nicodemus during the decades after 1877, when it was founded by a colony of emancipated blacks...
DIED. Shawn Stephens Lewis, 25, Detroit secretary who last June became the fifth wife of renegade rockabilly Singer Jerry Lee Lewis, 47; of pulmonary edema, a condition that causes the lungs to fill with fluid and is sometimes related to a drug overdose; in Nesbit, Miss. The tempestuous, controversial Lewis attributed his recovery from emergency stomach surgery in 1981 to Shawn's loving support. Sudden death, however, has haunted the singer's life: a three-year-old son drowned in the family swimming pool in 1962; another son, his 19-year-old namesake, was killed...
...Aussie camp. Australia II's skipper, John Bertrand, 36, is already contemplating how Australia will change the rules after it captures the Cup. "If we win," he says, "we're going to make sure all sailcloth must be made of kangaroo hide. Then we are going to fill up a salt lake in the outback and defend the Cup there." After this wild America's Cup summer, stranger things could happen...