Word: fill
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Throughout the book, Cohen talks about President Carter's lobbying on behalf of the SALT Two treaties. His entry for June 18 describes a speech President Carter gave to a joint session of congress on the treaty, Many Republicans boycotted the speech and pages had to be used to fill in the empty places. Although his speech was well-prepared, Carter received little applause...
...drain or fill in for real estate...
...fill the strategic gap, the Israelis are building two new airfields, Ovda and Ramon, in the north and south of the Negev. Meantime, Israeli air force officials are looking at ways to keep Etzion operational until the very last minute before the transfer. Said one officer: "Some Americans say privately to us that they can't believe we can give it back." If the Israelis cannot retain the two Sinai bases, they would like the U.S. to have access to them -but that idea is strongly opposed by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat...
However thin you spread it, peanut butter is in short supply and increasingly expensive as a result of last summer's drought in the producing states. The impending sandwich crisis may be averted, however. From Texas, which also helps fill the oil gap, comes a substitute spread that sticks to roofs of mouths as fondly as the real stuff. Made from organically grown glandless cotton nut kernels mixed with 15% peanut oil, the American nut butter is higher in protein and lower in calories than peanut preserve. The Madeleine & Charlotte's brand, available in chunky salted and creamy...
...besides Jayne Anne Phillips. Ann Beattie and Barry Hannah?--has been awarded a whole volume of short stories: and if young writers dedicated to the discipline eat the bread and water of afflication, older writers simply give up and eat something decent: they don't write short stories to fill the time between novels anymore--instead, they get smart and do things they can get paid for, which may or may not involve slouching toward Hollywood with a screenplay. And many really important writers even do short stories, with the exception of John Updike and Joyce Carol Oates. It seems...