Word: pad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made the swing in a manual training class 30 years ago. It was high-backed, narrow and uncomfortable, but Mrs. Dewey was proud of her son's handiwork and she hung it on the front porch of the white clapboard house on Oliver Street. She made a pad for it, and whenever it came apart, she patched it up with wire. One afternoon last week the wire gave way. Down in a heap went 165-Ib. Tom Dewey, 210-lb. National Committeeman Arthur E. Summerfield, 180-Ib. State Committee Treasurer Ben 0. Shepherd. No casualties...
Since Lassie's radio venture, the demand for his autograph has increased so greatly that Trainer Weatherwax has decided to have the dog fitted with an inked paw-pad bearing his picture. Consumption of Red Heart Dog Food has also increased, at least in the Weatherwax household. Once Weatherwax even fed some Red Heart sandwiches to unsuspecting guests...
That a veteran would cash in his bond only to pad his safe deposit account was regarded as highly doubtful by Richard M. Goodwin, assistant professor of Economics. He considered that where the payoff money came from was the determining factor in estimating a possible inflationary effect...
...opposition to division. For an apostle of nonviolence, he had used, a few days before, strong language: "Let the whole nation be in flames; we will not concede an inch of Pakistan." But in the Viceroy's office, he listened as Mountbatten talked, scribbled questions on a pad of paper, but uttered no sound. The Mahatma was observing his day of silence...
...Including 106-lb. Jockey Doug Dodson and a pound and a half of saddle. The rest was lead, in serted in a pad under the saddle, since the track handicapper had given Armed the maximum weight to carry. The added weight slows a horse down, gives lighter-weight lesser lights a chance...