Word: vacant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Georgians gathered in Hurt Park, Eisenhower soon struck the right note. Said he: "It seems that some of the opposition spokesmen look upon this meeting as a revolution . . . Through generations they have been counting the votes of the South ahead of time, along with the cemetery tombstones and the vacant lots that they carry in the election rolls in some of the cities they run up north." The Georgians, who had heard complaints that Ike wouldn't conduct a "fighting" campaign, gasped and then let out a mighty roar of approval...
Truckloads of sets arrived from Los Angeles and Chicago; freight carfuls came from New York. Every vacant store in town became a TV outlet; even one funeral home began taking orders and promising quick delivery. Only last week did Denverites catch on that their city was becoming a dumping ground for stuff no other Americans would take...
Last spring Mayor Gonzalo de la Calle found that the vacant plaza interfered with some city rebuilding projects. Armed with the ancient contract, he crossed the French border to Bayonne, where many of Vitoria's exiled Jews had once settled. Seeking out the surprised leaders of Bayonne's Sephardic Jewish community, he asked them to release Vitoria from the terms of its ancient pledge. They readily agreed...
...Vacant Chair. Wan, drawn, and wearing an ankle-length mink coat, Evita attended the main act of the brief inaugural. Riding in the presidential limousine to the Congress building, she sat at her husband's side in the vice president's traditional place-the place she would have occupied in her own right had army opposition not forced withdrawal of her nomination last year. Last week she sat there only because the place was vacant; Vice President Hortensio Quijano had died since November's elections...
...PEOPLE THAN IT IS WITH THEM. MR. KERNAN'S NEAR CONTEMPT ' FOR THE LAITY INDICATES QUITE CLEARLY THAT HIS OWN PRIESTHOOD IS LACKING IN THOSE VIRTUES FOR WHICH HIS ORDINATION VOWS CALLED 26 YEARS AGO. HIS PLACE AMONG THE DEFENDERS OF FREEDOM UNDER LAW WILL BE VACANT, BUT HE WILL NOT BE MISSED...