Word: filled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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City Councilor Barbara Ackermann said last week she has concentrated on "the provision of health services and how they get paid for." She has tried to staff neighborhood clinics and pressed for state aid to Cambridge to fill the gaps in aid caused by Medicare cutbacks. She has also worked for affirmative action and for eradication of patronage jobs...
...spoke for all when he said, "Nothing that life has dealt him has ever dimmed his optimism or quenched his unquenchable spirit." Even in his present struggle, Humphrey seemed buoyant; his cheeks were sunken, but his famous smile was bigger than ever; gaunt shoulders, even though they failed to fill his tweed jacket, were defiantly straight...
...Faculty has never agreed upon a professor to fill the chair, the Law School will use the funds this year. But Weiler's visit does not preclude the possibility of appointing a professor to the Faculty chair in the future...
Instead of participating in exciting dialogue in tense situations, Vaughn must compensate for the absence of a supporting cast by weaving everything they would say into his own speech. As if the brevity of most scenes were not annoying enough, this constant need to fill an obvious vacuum proves unbearably frustrating...
...Busing eradicates whatever sense of community existed between Indian families in the city. Bewildered children who were swathed in the security of the reservation are dumbly walking the city's sensitive color line. Indian children are counted as either black or white depending on which race is needed to fill necessary public school racial balance quotas. They are also victims of racial hatred from both races...