Word: fill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This course is a sign of the growing awareness that we are facing the final epidemic--nuclear war." James E. Muller, assistant professor of Medicine, said, adding that to prevent such an epidemic, physicians must fill a "special role...
...season, a good one-fifth of the customers show up between midnight and 8 a.m., seeking, in the words of one freshman, "to fill that one tiny corner of your stomach that's still screaming for sugar." He's not on a full-scale food run, the student explains, just a Snickers bar and some penny candy. The average sale is, in fact, about $1.50, Higgins says, but that takes into account the 340 sales a day of a single can of soda, the people who come just for a break and buy a single three-cent mint, and, conversely...
...impressive showing for a squad which lost seven of its starters from last year's varsity. To compensate for the lost manpower, coach Bob Scalise worked the booters into shape with tortuous triple sessions in early September, an experience most of the booters would like to forget. But to fill the holes from last year's lineup. Scalise looked to a bumper crop of freshmen, unquestionably the big surprise of the season...
...learning. One male bastion after another opened its doors to female students: Yale, Dartmouth, Princeton, eventually even West Point. For the remaining handful of all-male schools, the next few years were very hard indeed. Washington and Lee, in 1978, had to accept 70% of its applicants to fill a class of 380, and the average SAT test scores for entering freshmen were at a low point. The war in Viet Nam and pacifism at home made things even worse for military-oriented institutions. The Citadel almost closed down one of its four barracks in 1974. At V.M.I., Admissions Director...
Washington intelligence unit and enough assorted goons to fill a San Quentin production of A Chorus Line...