Word: vacant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...house at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue looked deserted. The windows, shorn of their rich hangings, had a vacant look about them, and on the White House gates there were neat, white wooden signs: CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC. Inside the mansion, a sander went to work in the East Room, smoothing away pits and scars on the quartered-oak parquet floor. By week's end the floor was ready for filling and waxing. This week a crew of maintenance men will move in to fix the floors, touch up the paneling in the State Dining Room, and dry-clean the soiled...
NEAR the home of TIME Correspondent Monica Dehn in Jerusalem are two vacant lots that became the sites for major rallies during the election campaign in Israel. For a correspondent covering the campaign, this was a great convenience; but for the mother of two small children (Monica is the wife of London Timesman David Roy Elston), it was a towering nuisance. Before rallies, campaign managers spent half the nights tuning up loudspeakers, one to outblast the other. One midnight some 50 babies of the neighborhood could be heard bawling as loudspeakers blared over and over: "One, two, three...
...Vacant Seat? "Observing these men and the way they behave among themselves," wrote Walter Kindermann. the official translator who accompanied the Austrian delegation to Moscow, "there seems to be hardly any doubt that [Stalin's] place is vacant at present. All these men are strong personalities. One or the other may at a given time be in the limelight for a short while. But I certainly did not get the impression that there is one among them who ruled over the others...
...boost sales of Crane's bathroom fixtures, industrial valves, fittings, etc., continue diversification into such operations as mining rare earths, refining titanium, turning out aircraft accessories. To work with Elliott, Crane brought in Mark W. Lowell, vice president of Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co., to fill the vacant post of board chairman...
Like Schlesinger and Mrs. Wilcox, however, she said that it was unrealistic to expect the property to remain vacant. "You cannot expect to keep it as a shrine to old Cambridge," Mrs. Wilcox said...