Word: vacuumized
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...admit it today, their reformist undertakings, left over from one of William Jennings Bryan's platforms, lay down a fertile field for disguised power plays and seemingly innocent maneuvering. For rather than fostering antiseptic government, the University-Brattle Street coalition spawned an amorphous council, a vacuum just waiting for a few bosses to step...
...this vacuum that Crane decided to fill. The CCA backed candidate fought his way onto the council and with the help of political and collegiate pal Joseph DeGuiglielmo '29, a man with Crane-like credentials, wasted no time in manipulating Cambridge's first city manager, John Atkinson, into making 13 years of yes-man decisions...
...many of us have succeeded in doing just that. We learn in a vacuum about theories we will be hard-pressed to apply to our fives; we study for examinations and grades rather than for learning or for living Harvard, unfortunately, encourages that...
Despite a spectacular increase in preseason interest, the graduation of last years co-captain Kathy Angel and pending graduation of co-captain Debbie McLane has left the squad with a vacuum in the top positions. Temple Mountain ace Lillian Nordica has raced professionally and is not eligible for college competition. Coach Barbara Grant hopes that depth and improvements in the ranks will make up for the lack of a star...
...Mary Tyler Moore show. The drunken bandleader, Phil Harris, is a 100-proof version of Ed McMahon, Johnny Carson's sidekick. Rochester, the sardonic Negro valet, is the granddaddy of all the servants, black and white, who have hilariously put down their employers since the invention of the vacuum tube...