Word: filles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...linoleum like Lady Macbeth. The Women's Christian Temperance Union might have some words about beer and wine ads. Eventually, perhaps, horse lovers might demand time to talk about dog foods. It is tempting to think that before long the great debate of commercials would expand to fill more and more air time, encroaching until regular programming is pre-empted entirely. It might even be more entertaining...
Millionaire Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, 72, called a press conference to tell the world that even though he had not been asked to fill the vacant post of U.S. Ambassador to Spain, he was not going to take the job because the ten-month period remaining until the presidential election was too short "to enable me to accomplish anything enduring." After November, though, if anybody cares, "I speak tourist Spanish with a Mexican accent, but I'm taking lessons...
Harvard will be at several disadvantages, Captain Dave Fish, still bothered by a sore elbow, is a questionable starter. Reserve Rob Sedgewick, who usually moves into the number nine spot, has the flu, but senior Rob Shapiro should successfully fill the vacant position...
...thing to pick off a tommy," admits a leading Provisional. "In three minutes the area can be sealed off." Elsewhere in Ulster, the Provos claim?probably accurately?that they operate with little risk of discovery. Farmers regularly call on the I.R.A. for armed protection as they go out to fill in the craters in roads blown up by British explosives...
...peace. Many Nigerians, both in and out of the federal government, seem determined to defend those words. Most Ibos who held civil service jobs outside the East Central state before the war have been unable to win them back, even when no other qualified Nigerians are available to fill them. The East Central state is occupied by two federal army divisions, and it receives far less than its share of federal development funds. "The word is out," says one foreign-aid official, "that the East Central state is last on the list for everything, even books...