Word: filled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have a "significant other," it would be hard to conceive of a more painful occasion. You have to write sappy cards to your beloved. And turning to your friends at Hallmark is not acceptable--your words must be heartfelt and sincere. You have to fill the day with ardent professions of your love, all in goo-goo talk, of course. You have to go out to some ridiculously expensive dinner, attend some ridiculously expensive show, or take some trip to a motel with a heart-shaped tub and mirrors on the ceiling...
...cold war is over. The war between the sexes has some potential to take its place, to fill the need for portentous conflict with seemingly enormous issues and irreconcilable differences, as between cobra and mongoose, earthling and alien. Men and women at one another's throats, or waving knives at one another's private parts, admirably fuse the dimensions of the intimate and the world-historical. Journalists and essayists have to make a living; men and women leading peaceful, productive lives with one another have to be dragged somehow into the combat. Accordingly: "You hear what she said about...
After a months-long search, President Clinton chose Deval Patrick, 37, to fill the post of Assistant Attorney General in charge of the civil rights division, still vacant a year after Clinton took office. Patrick was previously a partner in a Boston law firm and a litigator with the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Two previous candidates, Lani Guinier and John Payton, were scuttled...
Those, like Dean Gill, who accept the responsibility of upholding that confidentiality should not be pilloried for their faithfulness, nor should their silence be viewed as license to fill the void with gossip and heresay...
...effective in issuing a strong challenge to our generation to fill the void of bold leadership in [the Black] community," said Zaheer...