Word: vacuumized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...their leaders and institutions. The people are looking inward-to community, family and self -and discovering a new spirit of self-reliance. Yet by demonstrating their disenchantment with their public officeholders-large numbers of whom will surely be turned out this fall-the people are also creating a power vacuum at the national level. Says Bill Moyers, the former presidential press secretary who now travels the length and breadth of the land to find material for his weekly television journal: "I find the country up for grabs...
Since the British pulled out of the Persian Gulf in 1971, Iran's Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi has engaged in an expansionary policy aimed at filling the power vacuum. His troops have occupied the Persian Gulf islands of Greater and Lesser Tunb and Abu Musa, which-despite their comic-opera names-guard the strategic Strait of Hormuz, through which 120 tankers a day carry a little more than half the oil consumed by the non-Communist world. Iran earlier had abrogated a treaty granting equal navigational rights to the crucial Shatt al-Arab, a confluence of the Tigris...
Dartmouth coach Tim O'Connor has spent most of this season trying to fill a vacuum of talent, which exists behind Adam Sutton and Bill Raynor. Sutton, the sophomore forward leading the Ivies in scoring with a 20-point average, and Raynor, the tough little guard who plagued the Crimson at Hanover, have provided O'Connor's only material of substance this year...
...still have people believe that a Harvard-Johns Hopkins-trained psychiatrist-turned-priest just happens to have done research on witchcraft? Since when has superstition invaded the sciences? Since The Exorcist, where superstition is the sense of the world. This is the alchemist's vision resurrected in a historical vacuum...
...reason. Summit is the home town of Running Back Willie Wilson, one of the East Coast's brightest high school football stars. The two football celebrities were only a part of a 40-man invasion force that, according to Wilson's coach Howie Anderson, lined up "like vacuum cleaner salesmen" to see Wilson...