Word: vacant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...toward New York. So were the FBI agents who tailed her, constantly radioing news of her progress to other law-enforcement men along the way. Luckily, Michelle got to New York early on the morning of Feb. 16 without being blown to smithereens; she cached the dynamite in a vacant lot in the prosperous Riverdale residential section of The Bronx, checked into a Manhattan hotel, and got in touch with Ray Wood to report that the explosives had arrived...
...constitution would include one provision for membership control. When executive committee posts become vacant, the committee would send out to the members a list of possible successors, consisting of at least as many names as there are vacancies. If two-thirds of the members oppose the election of any candidate he could not be appointed. If the number of candidate remaining exceeds the number of vacancies, the executive committee would then choose among them...
...certain empty, vacant stare signifies that you have suddenly become transparent, virtually non-existent; a special way of moving the lips without uttering a sound makes it plain that the General is no longer listening, that he is preparing to greet the next person...
...evils of party divisions between the White House and Congress. To prevent a deadlocked Government, he suggested that if Republicans seized Congress, Harry Truman really ought to appoint Republican Arthur Vandenberg Secretary of State, then resign himself and let Vandenberg succeed to the presidency (the vice-presidency was vacant, and in those days the Secretary of State was still next in line). The G.O.P. did win, and after the election the reporter asked Fulbright if he still felt the same way. Sure, he said. "That overeducated Oxford s.o.b.," fumed Harry. "He is the best argument there is for the land...
Last week Iacocca got his reward. Piling his personal gear into a bright red Mustang, he sped the half-mile from his office to corporate headquarters in Dearborn, where he moved into the vacant office of group vice president, Iacocca, an executive noted for his hard salesmanship, will not only be in charge of all Ford cars and trucks -accounting for 80% of the company's sales-but of Ford of Canada and Lincoln-Mercury...