Word: fill
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Harried and hurried, AT&T's 227,000 supervisory personnel worked shifts as long as 14 hours to fill in for the strikers. Thanks to the high level of automation in the phone system, most service continued to be remarkably smooth. Direct-dial calls generally zipped through the computerized networks with no trouble. But people who needed information or help in making long-distance calls encountered bothersome delays. Mary Lynn Graham, an Ohio State University journalism student, had to try four times over 30 minutes before successfully making a collect call to her parents in Dayton. Ohio Bell reported...
They put Bill Miner in San Quentin for robbing stagecoaches. By the time he was released, some 30 years later, Wells Fargo had sold its horses and invested in railroads, and the movies had been invented in order to fill idle minds with devilish ideas. Watching The Great Train Robbery in 1903, the old gent perceives a profitable way to enliven his sunset years. All he needs is horses, a few accomplices and, of course, some trains to stick...
...guerrillas from returning after the army moves on to other objectives. At its newly opened regional training center in Puerto Castilla, Honduras, the U.S. will have trained by the end of this year four new Salvadoran provincial military units of 350 men each, called cazador (hunter) battalions, to fill that need. Two additional hunter battalions for each of the country's 14 departments are being trained by U.S. and Salvadoran teams in El Salvador...
...many Japanese, however, pure ritual is not enough, nor is the attraction of the established religions. To fill this spiritual gap, the discontented have turned to so-called new religious movements, many of which were founded before World War II but grew spectacularly afterward. The groups, 170 or more claiming about 14 million adherents (about 12% of the population), all make use of traditional Japanese themes, although the rituals may vary...
...husband, and unless she has a job she will see almost no one else except her children. The tradition of separate social spheres for men and women means that many of today's housewives, living in minuscule but easily maintained apartments, have hours of free time to fill with lessons and P.T.A. meetings...