Word: pad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With only 2% of NASA's heavily slashed budget at its disposal, the once-ambitious U.S. planetary-exploration program is in danger of expiring before it gets to the launching pad. Anxious to keep from "abandoning the planets to Russia," 23 top space scientists last week recommended a program designed both to appeal to congressional penny pinchers and to reach the planets. In the next seven years, the new plans could take unmanned U.S. spacecraft to Jupiter and beyond...
...brief visit to the Delta last summer, Berger Shepard, who usually develops mines for the Navy, designed and built in just four days the world's smallest aircraft carrier. Constructed from pipes and a 16-ft. by 16-ft. steel mat (total cost: $300), the helicopter landing pad was fitted atop the foredeck of a 56-ft. Armored Troop Carrier, a standard craft in the Riverine fleet. The device was an immediate success, and in the past year eleven more have been rigged...
...help replenish their hard-pressed party coffers, Arizona Republicans and Democrats have rallied around a mutually beneficial scheme for getting the wage-earner financially involved in politics. Under their Pre-Authorized Deduction program (PAD), a contributor gives his bank the right to tap his checking account for a specified amount. The bank charges 3 1/2? per deduction, and the balance is forwarded to the contributor's party. Regular "stockholder reports" will be published tallying how much money was received from the plan and how it was spent. Most politicians think the checkoff system will have broad appeal, attracting...
...even with Singer Jennie Tourel ("the greatest influence on my phrasing and musical ideas"). After a 1962 appearance in one of Leonard Bernstein's televised Young People's Concerts, he started on a career of recitals and solo stints with major orchestras. This required him to pad out the skimpy repertory for bass by transcribing the music of other instruments, from the archaic viola da gamba to the flute. More recently, composers such as Alec Wilder and Hans Werner Henze have begun to recognize his uniqueness by writing new pieces...
...situation, although sometimes he is guilty of playing it a bit too quaintsy. Mattie's prowess as a horse trader, for example, is overdrawn to the point where character rides off into caricature toward a last stand at the credibility gap. And he finds it necessary to pad his dangerously thin tale with an overlong excursion into Rooster's gun-cocking past...