Word: fill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drama. The candidates media ploys, public pronouncements, travel schedules, deployment of personnel--White briskly showed how every little tactical choice carried the potential for making or breaking a campaign. And in 1976, when White refrained from writing about the presidential sweepstakes, no one else's electoral post mortem could fill the void. Jules Witcover's painstakingly researched Marathon came surprisingly close, but even casual readers of the genre could see it lacked the romance of The Making of the President series...
...seven wonders of the ancient world. Yet merely to level and grade Jubail's 66-sq.-mi. industrial park, a sector that comprises less than 15% of the entire city, engineers have had to shovel up and haul off 370 million cubic meters of sand-enough to fill the Khufu Pyramid 160 times over. If the landfill were used to construct a two-lane road, it would more than girdle the earth at the equator...
...animated by Caterpillar tractors, huge construction cranes hovering over the metal skeletons of warehouses and the rising silhouettes of four mini-Astrodomes that will serve as petrochemical storage tanks. A seemingly endless procession of huge earth movers trundles sand and rock to the water's edge, where the fill is used to extend an immense quarter-mile-wide causeway, one of the largest landfill operations of its kind. When completed in 1985, the six-mile-long causeway will provide berths for up to 18 ocean-going cargo ships at a time. At its farthest outward point sits a colossal...
...just very sorry the Justice Department wants to fill the prisons of this country with men of conscience." Barry Lynn, head of the national coalition Draft Action, said in a press conference in Washington yesterday morning. Lynn called for anti-draft activists to organize for the upcoming Congressional elections, forcing candidates to take a public stand on draft registration...
Forty years old this year, Houghton contains about 450,000 printed books and enough manuscripts to fill three and a half miles ofshelving if the papers were all removed at once. The subterranean stacksextend south to Mass Ave and east to Quincy St Before 1942, the entire rare book collection resided in a single room in Widener...