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Word: filled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Well, how could it be otherwise? Every time he sends some responsibility to Congress they "pour it back" because there's an election coming up. Every special interest group in the country stands around with its bucket - many of them rusty and full of holes - saying "fill it up." Carter is a very remarkable man with tremendous forbearance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 22, 1978 | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

...Michigan home. Some carpenters were building a new porch for him, and one of the men wanted to "go downtown for some stuff." Hoffa whipped out a pencil, grabbed a shingle and began writing down the crew's shopping list, then headed for his car to fill the list himself. "Why are you going?" I asked Jimmy. He winked at me and said, "You know how these union guys are -you send them downtown for nails and they end up having a few beers on the time clock." His broad smile covered the irony of his having helped labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 22, 1978 | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

After Sheriff Lawrence Broderick was killed in an auto accident, county commissioners named Gilman to fill the remaining 21 months of Broderick's term...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Diamond Don v. County Mounty | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

...complete medical team (including a dentist) and a Kremlin chef to keep him on his diet. The West Germans, for their part, stocked emergency equipment and blood plasma at the official guesthouse where Brezhnev stayed; they also assigned two ambulances to his motorcade, as well as enough physicians to fill three Mercedes cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RHODESIA: Have Doctors, Will Travel | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

...evening was strictly top banane: Jimmy Carter. For the first time in the 64 years that the White House Correspondents' Association has been inviting Presidents to its annual all-in-fun dinner, however, the incumbent did not show or send his wife or his Vice President to fill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Adversary Relationship | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

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