Word: vacanted
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Edwards can win in the South." This is a form of pragmatism, I suppose. Democrats are desperate to beat George W. Bush. But it is also fresh evidence of television's ability to lobotomize democracy. With serious issues of war and prosperity at stake, horse-race punditry seems particularly vacant right now--and particularly useless in a year when we professional blabbers have demonstrated yet again the essential idiocy of political prognostication...
...CHUNG: For me, one of the defining scenes of cinema is in Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita, when a middle-aged Winters begins rabidly beating James Mason, her vacant, utterly expressionless face unambiguously channeling her fiery rage upon learning of her husband’s affair with her daughter. But I digress...
...significance, though no event is specifically stated. A resounding embodiment of the Queen Anne and Stick/Eastlake architectural styles, the building served as a domestic, single dwelling facility, enjoying particular significance during the periods of 1875-1899 and 1925-1949 for an unstated reason. Today, the building remains vacant, perhaps inviting those Mather and Kirkland residents who find themselves no longer able to endure harsh wartime conditions...
...place on John Kerry's campaign trail, where one-on-one interviews with the candidate are more rationed. Before his victories in Iowa and New Hampshire, Kerry had lots of time to be chummy, tossing footballs in the aisle of his "Real Deal Express" bus and often grabbing a vacant seat next to a reporter for an off-the-record chat. But now that he's the front runner and his press contingent has grown to some 55, the Senator makes fewer off-the-cuff remarks, and he doesn't even ride on the bus anymore. He's up front...
...helm has been vacant since Tim Pendergast was fired on Nov. 25 following a season in which his team won just one game, losing all seven of its league contests...