Word: fill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...political expediency seems to be involved, however, in the present re-examination of Stalin. Journalists and scholars seem genuinely eager to drop their traditional roles as perpetuators of useful historical myths and instead tell the painful truth. Gorbachev gave the signal in a February 1987 speech inviting them to fill in the "blank spots" in Soviet history, and writers have responded with everything from weighty historical tomes to popular entertainments...
Only two tenured faculty members are currently teaching in the department, and it has been unable to fill vacant senior posts for the past several years. Many students charge that the administration is unwilling to support Black studies with financial and other support--and that perhaps, is also the legacy of Afro-Am's early years...
...season began. For the moment he is back in the league, but considering playing overseas. As with many student athletes, there are questions about just how much of an education Lafester Rhodes got in five years at Iowa State. His former C.B.A. coach Art Ross said Lafester struggled to fill out the team's simple application forms. Ross was later told by Iowa State's coach Orr that Lafester "couldn't read past a sixth-grade level...
...packaging national surveys. It did German art in 1985, British art in 1987; now Italy's turn has come. "Italian Art in the 20th Century," curated by Rosenthal and the Italian art critic and historian Germano Celant, tells its narrative in some 230 paintings and sculptures, and will fill Burlington House, the site of the academy's galleries, through April...
Okay, TV-news fans, get out your scorebooks. A new round of star wars is in full swing at the network news divisions. CBS, in desperate need of a female power hitter, last week grabbed one of the league's best, Connie Chung, from NBC. She will fill a gap in the CBS lineup opened last month when Diane Sawyer left to join the burgeoning Murderers' Row at ABC. Meanwhile, NBC, looking to compensate for Chung's departure, found no superstars on the trading block but managed to land a solid .280 hitter, Mary Alice Williams, formerly...