Word: interregnum
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Filling the vacancy won't exactly clear up confusion for there was little confusion to begin with. The Cambridge City Manager attended to all routine chores during the interregnum--only the School Committee was held inactive. Now that Mr. Neville is elected, the School Committee can roam at will, and signs can once more be posted bearing the mayor's signature. Only one questions remains: do these advantages really compensate for the loss of the famed Councilmen capers? Mayors are good to have, but vaudeville is priceless...
Just as De Gasperi announced his decision after 18 frustrating days of interregnum, the bright evening sun broke through the clouds over Rome, and gusts of wind swept up the city's rain-pelted streets. Many Italians felt that the air had indeed been cleared. Cried the black-curled son of a Rome shopkeeper: "It's wonderful. When the Christian Democrats finally had to choose between a liberal economy and state planning, they chose liberalism. Now we can do business...
...interregnum between no price controls whatever and the date when the new O.P.A. gets its mace of full authority, various new ceilings as adjusted by O.P.A. officials tend to make the buyer uncertain of any fact except the one that his cost of living is going up. Although increases now appear to have the sanction of law, many student budgets will have become inadequate unless buyers continue to restrict their demands to needed items and minimum quanties...
...frequency of the convulsions increases, the amplitude of their violence grows; the point of exhaustion has come within almost measurable range. There might be one or two more world wars but not a dozen. . . . Meanwhile [the] chief aim will be to create oases in the interregnum desert. ... In the so-called Dark Ages ... such oases assured the continuity of civilization: the monasteries first and later the universities ... on which no gendarme could set foot...
...Utopia seemed at hand. Today it is postponed for the duration of the interregnum. Let us plant oases...