Word: vacant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Madison Square Garden last week, the ex-street fighter and the ex-stevedore, both now 24 and duly coached and polished in Marquis of Queensberry niceties, met for the American middleweight championship, a title which has been vacant since Sugar Ray Robinson retired. Also at stake: a world title bout with European Champion Randy Turpin in August. Punching Paddy Young's campaign plan was simple: bore in swinging for a knockout. Bobo Olson, a far fancier fighter, figured to win on points...
...United States is not a mere matter of population and geography. It is the incarnation of political convictions. It is the one political structure in the world's history that was built consciously and deliberately from precise, mathematically calculated specifications on a vacant lot cleared for that purpose in 1776. The mathematical certainties are described in the specifications as 'self-evident truths.' They describe the certainty of an Almighty God, the certainty of human equality before God and therefore before the law of the land, the certainty of the divine origin of human rights and duties...
...officers had momentarily cornered him in Barnard, but he escaped out of one door as they came in the other. The Oriental was finally nabbed in the third floor closet of a vacant house opposite Cabot Hall on Walker Street...
...change-of-party new administration, the problem of patronage has three elements: 1) getting rid of the patronage appointees of the preceding administration to assure loyalty to the new regime, 2) getting good men to fill the vacant jobs, 3) rewarding the politically faithful to keep the party machinery going for future elections. The three-way problem (which the Republicans have not faced since Harding succeeded Wilson) has slowed down the Eisenhower Administration until GOPoliticos are grumbling impatiently. Last week Dwight Eisenhower moved to solve it by shifting control of patronage from White House Aide Sherman Adams...
...liked the place and set just one condition. "The occupant must get out within fifteen days." Impossible, replied the agent: French law prevents cursory eviction of tenants; besides, the owner is a kindhearted man. Riviere was adamant; finally the agent arranged to move the poor Dupuis family to a vacant store and pay their rent. M. Riviere paid the purchase price, spent another estimated $86,000 rebuilding the main house...