Word: fillers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Congressional Record, high school compositions and sociological journals. Morrow also kept a notebook - which swelled to 60 pages - of tortured usages found in everyday reading, television watching and conversation. In some ways, it was a chastening exercise. Morrow found that he frequently sinned, most often in using careless conversational "filler" phrases like "you know" and "well, ah." Colleagues who have chatted with him recently say that his speaking style is, ah, much improved...
...crucifix, the flying green vomit--behind curtain number three, and it had to be seen to be believed. Everything else was just garbage--the eleven bad songs to fill out the hit single album. Jaws was more refreshing than. The Exorcist partly because it didn't pretend that the filler was anything else but a vehicle for the real stuff...
...other clues: the cover was the annual portrait of Eustace Tilley, The New Yorker's elegant, top-hatted, curly-locked, nose-in-the-air, monacieclutching mascot. That told readers the magazine was celebrating some anniversary. And on page 134 there was the best clue of all, a four-line filler reeking of esoterica and tradition. It read...
...Rachel Fitler, 77, Philadelphia heiress and aunt of Happy Rockefeller, employee-employer relations are obviously something special. Last month Filler's engagement to her former chauffeur, 29-year-old Michael Wilson, was announced. Now comes word from an earlier Filler employee, ex-Chauffeur Hans von Aczel, 38, that he had been a Fitler fiance last year. "She asked me to marry her," claims von Aczel. "I'm not going to lie. I would have liked to live that kind of life." Aczel says he was promised $3,000 a month for pocket money, which would have...
Rockefeller seemed to be a chief contender for the 1964 nomination-until he handed the conservatives the ammunition they needed. He divorced his wife of 31 years in 1962 and a year later married a younger woman, Margaretta Filler Murphy, whose former husband was a virologist at the Rockefeller Institute. "Happy" Murphy was forced to give up custody of her four children after she married Rockefeller. (In a sign of changing U.S. mores, three of the foursome making up the new presidential and vice-presidential couples-Gerald Ford being the one exception-have been divorced...