Word: lacking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Persuaded friendly Interior Secretary Fred Seaton to shut down oil production on their 275 wells-thereby depriving oil companies (and themselves) of hundreds of thousands of dollars-so as to force the companies to rush completion of equipment that will salvage precious gas, which was being flared off for lack of transmission facilities...
...happy and satisfied. Visiting on another campus or at a national meeting, he smilingly acknowledged the eminence of Professor Greg, but when, ten years earlier, two young assistant professors, admirers of Professor Greg, had suggested a subscription for the portrait and the shelf, he had privately deplored their lack of worldly mindedness...
Speaking to a Sever audience on "Revolution in Burma, Pakistan, and Thailand," Emerson said that most undeveloped countries "lack the basic pre-requisites of democracy...
...Army (4-0-1)-with a damaging lack of depth exposed by a battling Pitt team two-deep at every position, its tired first string was obviously glad to settle for a 14-14 tie by running out the clock at game...
Richard Tucker, 44, today the world's best tenor. A Brooklyn boy, Tucker sang as a cantor in the neighborhood synagogue, for years owned his own textile business, broke into the Met in 1945 with almost no previous operatic experience. He freely confesses his lack of acting talent, but under proper direction he has produced some fine dramatic characterizations, e.g., Don José, Turiddu, Farrando in Così Fan Tutte. He has a big, warm, sensuous tenore robusto...