Word: cushioned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Married Man coasts over this pothole in its plot because of its cushion of intelligence and moral fastidiousness. Author Read is best known in the U.S. as the author of Alive, a nonfiction account of how some Uruguayan survivors of a plane crash in the Andes resorted to cannibalism to survive; his six previous novels, far less sensational, deserve more readers than they have received, and his latest may be his best. No one now writing has achieved quite the same equipoise between malaise and morality, ideas and emotions. In this tale of human imperfectibility, the devil gets...
...Harvard had maintained the pace of the first few minutes for the remainder of the game they would have tallied more than 80 goals by the final whistle. However, the Crimson relaxed slightly with its two-goal cushion, and Coach George Ford freely substituted for his starters. Still, a third goal seemed inevitable...
After Field provided a two-goal cushion, the Crimson switched to a defensive game-a tactic that worries MacAusland. "I'm a little concerned. Against Cornell and Penn we seemed to sit on our leads and not attack in the second half," she said...
...series of articles published by the Philadelphia Inquirer. The newspaper reported, for example, that during interrogations at police headquarters, suspects were routinely handcuffed to metal chairs, questioned for as long as 24 hours and often beaten. The officers sometimes were careful to leave no bruises: one technique was to cushion a suspect's head with a phone book and hammer it with a heavy object. But on other occasions, the newspaper reported, officers beat suspects with lead pipes, blackjacks, brass knuckles, handcuffs, chairs and table legs. At times, other suspects were forced to watch the beatings through...
...sports facilities are impressive the amenities anything but. Toilets are few, far between and largely unsanitary. Every mother's advice has never been more apropos: 'Go to the bathroom before you leave.' Bring a seat cushion-most of the stands are bleacher-style seating-and a pair of powerful binoculars to use in the immense stadiums. If possible, take taxis, buses and subways. Don't drive yourself: street signs are almost all in Russian and left turns are illegal in Moscow. Above all, be patient...