Word: filled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...College's only student-run radio station aims to fill a gap in the airwaves...
...assembled a surrogate family for herself. She chose her father figure, Bill Clinton, even before she got to town, it seems, and won him over in a panty-flash. But finding a stand-in mother took a while. For a time Betty Currie, the President's secretary, seemed to fill the role, but when Lewinsky was transferred from the White House to the Pentagon, she apparently found a new mama: Linda Tripp. Lewinsky's dysfunctional household was complete, with the result that, ever since, the country has been bogged down in family court...
...snapped up 10 Steps to a Great Relationship, even though you have 100 Best Ways to Stay Together on the shelf at home. So why would you possibly be interested in The Complete Idiot's Guide to Being Faithful, a soon-to-be-published tome that manages to fill 352 pages explicating the proposition that cheating is unwise? (A section on terminating an affair is headed "A Happy Ending? Probably...
...north of Rio, the city of Salvador da Bahia, which will be celebrating its 450th birthday, promises to have the country's most sizzling street party. For the Bom Jesus dos Navegantes celebration, which honors sailors, thousands of boats with banners aflutter will fill the harbor. Along the ancient cobblestone avenues and more modern thoroughfares, trios eletricos, samba-reggae bands on trucks with eardrum-shattering loudspeakers, will play. Barefoot, bare-chested youths in white cotton trousers will perform the traditional capoeira, a carefully choreographed martial art dating back to slavery that combines somersaults and kickboxing and prohibits contact with...
...when his health began to deteriorate, he rebuffed entreaties from President Jimmy Carter to retire so that a Justice who shared his views could be named to take his place. Instead, Marshall hung on until 1991, when President George Bush selected Clarence Thomas, a black conservative, to fill the vacancy. To Marshall, it was an odious and demeaning selection--"they think [Thomas is] as good as I am," he snapped. In fact, even those who most ardently backed Thomas never really thought he was in Thurgood Marshall's league...