Word: fill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fill out the roster of voiceless messengers from Walker, there are a host of stereotypical minor characters. An aged British aunt spits out attacks on the Victorian era on her deathbed. A poor little rich girl buys a yacht to rescue Carlotta and Zede from prison, and, after wandering through the jungle in pink boots, she makes a new identity as an art teacher in Africa. Her rich parents, she claims, have "personally assasinated six rivers and massacred twelve lakes." A vicious guerilla fighter with a heart mothers a child and dies of grief when the father takes the daughter...
...familiar were her trademark facial expressions that after a while scriptwriters simply inserted code words for them. "Puddling up" meant that Lucy's eyes would fill with tears just before she emitted a banshee wail. "Light bulb" signaled the alarming expression that crossed her face when she had a brainstorm. "Credentials" indicated an open-mouthed gape, as if to say, "How dare...
Republican strategists were breathing a little easier last week after state legislator Craig Thomas won a special election in Wyoming, called to fill the congressional seat vacated by Dick Cheney when he became Secretary of Defense. In two prior contests to fill House vacancies that had cropped up since George Bush won the White House, the G.O.P. had come up embarrassingly empty-handed...
...will risk jail in the coming year." He even argues, "This civil rights movement is larger, in terms of sheer numbers of supporters and of those who have gone to jail all over the nation, than the civil rights movement of the '60s. We're now ready to fill the jails...
ROTC supporters argue that problems could be resolved by working within the system--start a ROTC chapter and fill it with bright Harvard minds. This is Harvard elitism at its worst. The military, perhaps the most inflexible institution in America, will not change its policies because of a few students. And it is unclear whether any military training operation could change enough to be appropriate for special privileges in the Harvard community...