Word: vacant
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...instant. A noble and well-thought of anniversary. The pathos of the occasion was extreme and not much noted by the speakers. Cambridge at any time is full of ghosts. But on that day, the anointed eye saw the crowd of spirits that mingled with the procession in the vacant spaces, year by year, as the classes proceeded, and then the far longer train of ghosts that followed the Company, of the men that wore before us the College honors and the laurels of the state--the long winding train reaching back into eternity...
...show started with steady staff of eight writers, but Reiss brought in O'Brien when the show had two unexpected vacant spots in 1991. "What I could not believe about the guy is that he is funny all day long," Reiss says. "At midnight or 1 a.m. he'd still be funny...
...black granite and mahogany table to issue diktats that are feverishly parsed on Wall Street and around the world. The members are the seven Fed governors, plus five of the 12 regional Federal Reserve Bank presidents at a time. (Two governors' seats are currently vacant; a Ph.D. in economics will help if you'd like to apply.) The remaining bank chiefs are nonvoting but vocal participants...
...past four years, but for me, there was one evening in particular that captured the essence of Harvard's social scene. It was a warm night last spring, well past midnight, and I was returning home from a gathering in a friend's room. Mt. Auburn street was nearly vacant, except for a shiny red sports car that cruised past me and pulled to a halt curbside. Out of the car emerged two well-dressed, well-coifed Harvard students--and a strung-out prostitute. As I stood entranced, my two classmates helped the wobbly woman out of the backseat...
...aside ambition and masochistically (their word) submit to the maternal instinct. In the 19th century, gynecologists warned that any use of the female intellect--from novel reading to higher education--could foreclose motherhood by causing the uterus to, quite literally, wither away. Happiness was a full womb and a vacant mind...