Word: vacuumed
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...assuming the presidency. All three claim, as president, to have military enforcement at their disposal. Commanders of the army, air force, navy and national police were quick to stress their neutrality. "This situation is very serious. There must be a rapid solution. There cannot be a power vacuum," said Gen. Paco Moncayo, head of the army. In Ecuador, where economic hardship and bumbling politicians have left many citizens nostalgic for military rule, the immensely popular general might neatly fit such a vacancy. But Moncayo, calling for a "legal solution," insisted "the armed forces are not going to take power...
...Critic, 1925--a figure meant to represent Royal Cortissoz, the much feared conservative who had dubbed modernism "Ellis Island art." It is a paper doll cut from one of Cortissoz's own reviews, mounted on a pair of roller skates for fast passage through the galleries, and holding a vacuum cleaner to dispose of modernist trash...
FRED ASTAIRE Dances with vacuum cleaners? TV ads digitize an ungainly partner for the elegant dancer...
...Hume not by baffling the grader or by fencing with him but like this: "It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...
...Cardinal and theologian John Henry Newman called the "development of doctrine"--the process, infuriating to traditional Protestants, whereby Catholic Popes and bishops continued promulgating articles of Christian faith long after the last biblical word was written. Mary is a prime example: her scant treatment in the Gospels left a vacuum that the church, often preceded and probably influenced by popular belief, has been gradually filling over the centuries. The Vatican's 1854 announcement as doctrine of Mary's Immaculate Conception, followed in 1950 by her bodily Assumption into heaven, infuriated many Protestants. Some historians read them primarily as papal defiance...