Word: pad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last moment, it was possible that the failure of a single tiny device among the 15 million individual parts of Apollo 11 might cause delay on the pad or more serious consequences in space. Up to the last moment, too, complaints were being voiced about misspent money and misguided motives. But not even the skeptics could ignore or entirely downgrade so transcendent an event-one of those shining moments in history when man rises above himself toward greatness...
...cutting inflation to a mere 22% annually (down from 90% in 1964, when the military ousted left-leaning President Joāo Goulart) and achieving an economic growth rate of 6%. At one point Costa e Silva grew so animated in his discourse that Rockefeller brought out a yellow pad and began taking notes...
...large measure, Burger owed his nomination as much to Abe Fortas as to Richard Nixon, and the President said as much in an extraordinary 45-minute session with newsmen the day after the appointment. Speaking from notes he had written on his celebrated yellow legal pad, the President told not only why he had chosen Burger but why he had not chosen several others who had been prominently mentioned for the job. Other Presidents, including L.B.J., have held background sessions dealing with personalities or events. But never before has a President admitted the public so far into his thinking about...
Director Jack Starrett and Cinematographer John Stephens pad out their film with lots of repetitive footage of the Advocates barreling up the California coast, but they also pull off a split-screen chase scene that puts The Thomas Crown Affair to shame. As Angel and Laurie, William Smith and Valerie Starrett (the director's wife) make up in enthusiasm what they lack in finesse. Angel is obviously and deeply indebted to Bonnie and Clyde, and even more to Nicholas Ray's 1949 They Live by Night, but anyone who expects a work as accomplished as those will...
...nothing. It seems a bit pathetic that someone could just let his body vegetate, but it probably doesn't seem pathetic to those that are physically vegetating. And that's the way everything else is at Harvard. The decision is up to the individual. If a student wants to pad his butt, let him. P.T. coupons are an unjustified attempt to direct a student's activities. Aside from the matter of justification, these coupons just do not work and the athletic department is foolish to persist with this system. If those in charge consider the situation for a moment, they...