Word: filled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...level, we have some pretty fancy electronic gear too. There's SOTAS-stand-off target acquisition systems-which use moving target radar to tell us exactly where enemy troops are massing. And REMBASS, which stands for remotely monitored battlefield sensor system. It uses acoustic and seismic sensors to fill in any gaps in surveillance -say, where the terrain "blinds" a radar system. They had something like it in Viet Nam to detect troop movements. One of these years, we'll be getting RPVS -remotely piloted vehicles (don't you like all the initials?). That will make being...
Alberta Arthurs, acting dean of freshmen, has not been selected as the first choice of the search committee to fill the currently vacant post, an official in the freshmen's dean office said yesterday...
...reputation, he is a man who would favor intramural athletics over intercollegiate athletics, and has also been involved in several disturbing incidents. Reardon and Pittenger on the other hand have served Harvard well, support intercollegiate and intramural athletics, are well established in the Harvard community and would each fill the position very capably. Your article did a great disservice to both, and implied a huge network of alumni and coaches conspiring to oust a better man. You are quite wrong on both counts. Lyman G. Bullard...
...Bilandic, 54, close friend of the late Richard Daley and heir apparent to his throne; and Socialite Heather Morgan, 34, executive director of Chicago's Council on Fine Arts. Bilandic, who topped five other contenders in the Democratic primary, is expected to win the June general election tp fill the remaining two years of Daley's term...
...right." Why, puzzles Birmingham, should the aristocratic wife of Washington's black mayor "satisfy herself with plastic plants in her house and settle for brightly colored glass ceiling fixtures"? Why does a Harlem socialite place a huge Steuben glass bowl in the center of her coffee table and fill it with gold-painted walnuts? Why, he asks, do so many blacks drink Kool-Aid and smoke Kool cigarettes? Birmingham's answers are even more idiosyncratic than his questions. He theorizes that "the associations of the words Kool and cool, as in 'keeping one's cool...