Word: vacant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hitchcock movie," muttered the Frenchman. But no one was listening. Huddled in a dingy back room of Carnegie Hall last week, the seven finalists in the Dimitri Mitropoulos International Music Competition were wrapped in a cocoon of suspense, nervously awaiting the verdict of the judges. The Czech stared vacant-eyed at the wall; the Japanese seemed mesmerized by his feet. The German bustled around the room collecting autographs. The Chilean idly felt his wrist, suddenly exclaimed: "I have no pulse! My heart has stopped...
Last winter, Commissioner George P. Larrick, an up-through-the-ranks man, decided that he had had enough and asked to be retired (a year before he needed to). Soon, so did two other top officials; six key spots are now vacant...
...city displayed an astonishing reserve of cool in crisis, never succumbing to panic or total paralysis. But the damage, like almost all statistics about New York, was impressive. Everywhere, there were shuttered shops, empty offices, unanswered telephones, vacant theater seats, unused barber chairs, empty streets where there should have been crowds. An extraordinary number of people somehow managed to get to work, but day after day went by without pay for thousands of far-distant clerks, secretaries and laborers who could scarcely afford the loss. Merchants complained that they were losing millions every day. There was no doubt that...
...several years, therefore, the majority of Greece's bishops have been agitating for a new law to provide for bishops' transfer, and in the meantime their ruling body, the Assembly of Bishops, has been refusing to fill rich posts that fall vacant, hoping that if the law were changed they could get themselves transferred to these plums. In October they seemed to be making progress; Premier Stephanos Stephanopoulos' Cabinet authorized transfers in two of the 17 vacant dioceses...
Without waiting for this decision to be ratified by Parliament, the 51 bishops in the Assembly met in Athens and set about choosing prelates for all the vacant sees. Then a blow fell: at the prodding of upright Bishop Ambrosios of Elevtheroupolis, the Council of State ordered the bishops to stop filling the vacancies...