Word: vacuumed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...compelling intellectual or moral framework. O'Hara conveys emotion and action as well as anyone, but it is hard to discern any overriding vision beneath his surface realism. As a result, O'Hara's world seems almost too simple, his characters living and dying in a near moral vacuum. O'Hara's fiction describes how his characters live but we are left wondering why they...
...someone must move fairly soon into the vacuum at the top of Argentina's political life. Isabel Perón has set a new presidential election for next October (somewhat self-servingly, on Peronist Loyalty Day). Whether the country can stand that long a wait is arguable. Inflation is now running at a rate of about 300% a year, and even the affluent middle class is living from day to day on rapidly dwindling buying power. Terrorism from both the right and left has claimed more than 1,500 lives since Juan Perón's death...
...could well spell the end of the two-month-old government of moderate Premier José Pinheiro de Azevedo. President Costa Gomes, who is also commander in chief of the armed forces, went into session with the ruling Revolutionary Council to deal with the crisis. Abhorring a vacuum, the Communists quickly mobilized several thousand faithful, who marched outside the presidential palace, chanting: "Reactionaries out of the government...
...Morocco's annexation attempt, still opposes any settlement that is not based on a United Nations referendum. Algerian army units have been placed on combat alert near the Sahara border, and the Polisario, an Algerian-backed Saharan liberation group, says its guerrillas are ready to move into any vacuum created by the withdrawal of Spanish forces...
...dual struggle raged in Spain last week. While Generalissimo Francisco Franco fought to stay alive, his government struggled to keep functioning in a power vacuum. At week's end, as the old dictator still clung to life with characteristic tenacity, the government literally gave up waiting for him to die. It resolved a growing crisis of authority by pressuring a reluctant Prince Juan Carlos de Borbón y Borbón, Franco's heir designate, to become his country's temporary Chief of State. Only after Franco's death or a complicated legal process declaring...