Word: filled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...maybe the coaches thought to themselves, "Well, Harvard had a lousy year, so we'll put Bob Baggott on the first team and that should make them happy. Then we'll fill in the other spots with guys from Penn...
...couple of random thoughts to fill up the ever-present white space...
Yale has five lettermen returning but sophomores Frank Maturo and Amhony Curry are expected to fill two of the starting positions...
Salinger's commentaries-on such topics as Carter's foreign policy, the Bert Lance affair, the Concorde furor-are a Franco-American spaghetti of high-minded civics lessons and smoke-filled-room atmospherics. Though he correctly foresaw Carter's troubles over energy legislation, he has blandly described the New York governorship as a major stepping stone to the White House-which it has not been since 1932. French journalists, unaccustomed to Salinger's anecdotal style, dismiss him as a lightweight. "I don't go running to him to find new information," sniffs a leading Paris...
There was a time when William Randolph Hearst, at his megalomaniac whim, could order his papers from coast to coast to lambaste Franklin D. Roosevelt on the front page, build up the career of Hearst's mistress Marion Davies on the movie page, and fill the intervening space with scandal. The Hearst papers have long since moderated their ways. No other newspaper chain nowadays commits such abuses. Instead, the damning indictment of most chain papers is that they have become flat, boring and timorous...