Word: fill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...several appointments proclamations was still drying, and the fireplace--fueled with papers that King obviously wanted concealed--was still glowing. Dukakis, on the other hand, spent that week reviewing his 30-member screening committee's final recommendations--the conclusion of a thorough two-month screening process--to fill out his cabinet and the rest of his administration...
...raced through the streets as truck convoys dropped Soviet soldiers off at the main intersections. Roadblocks were set up every hundred yards or so, and citizens were stopped, searched and asked for their identification cards. Meanwhile, squads of soldiers went house to house, looking for high school graduates to fill the ranks of the unpopular and demoralized Afghan army. When the soldiers found a potential recruit, they would take him away at gunpoint. Says an Afghan exile living in New Delhi: "It is not what you would call winning the hearts and minds of the people of Afghanistan...
...graders, three cranes and five shovels. The star performer is clearly "Sarah," a West German-built excavator that was named after a Sudanese official's daughter. By the time the Jonglei Canal is finished, the bucket wheeler will have moved 3.5 billion cu. ft. of earth, enough to fill the Great Pyramid more than 38 times. Getting the eight-story-high, 2,300-ton excavator and its 1 million spare parts to Sudan, the largest nation in Africa and independent since 1956, was a challenging task. The machine had been in Pakistan, where it was used...
...till his tire without paying. My husband offered him the money order, having explained his situation and purpose, shown his identification. etc, No go He then offered to leave the money order to leave his identification, to leave his watch with the attendant, if only he'd fill up the live, enabling him to go to the bank and return with the 50cents the attendant refused. So he had to catch a cab to his bank in Harvard Square to get money from the automatic teller to redeem his car. But the automatic teller was inoperative, instructing him to proceed...
Summers has little to say publicly about his decision to jump ship at MIT last summer and come over to Harvard. He had actually just received tenure from the Institute and was being counted on to fill an important role. "Harvard made me a very attractive offer. There's a lot of appeal to being part of Harvard University," he says, refusing to elaborate further. Right now, Summers adds, he plans to return to Harvard in September...