Word: pad
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hunger strikes--those days of living on water and an electrolyte solution, those sleepless nights on a foam pad in front of the National Palace in Guatemala City and outside the White House--did win Jennifer Harbury some answers. Last week she learned of an intelligence report linking the death of her husband, Efrain Bamaca Velasquez, a comandante in the Guatemalan guerrilla forces, to a Guatemalan army colonel who had once been a paid informant for the CIA. She said, "The truth shall make you free...
...astronauts' ritual of eating a piece of cake before launch, the Russian flight doctors said nyet. Instead, Thagard and his fellow crew members, cosmonauts Vladimir Dezhurov and Gennady Strekalov, carried out a Russian tradition: they urinated on the tires of the bus that had brought them to the launch pad...
...told TIME. "Dan Quayle had me right when he said, 'When Bob Dole has a day off, he goes to a fund raiser.' " The Doles have never been much for the capital's social scene. They still live in the two-bedroom Watergate apartment that was Dole's bachelor pad after his divorce from his first wife Phyllis. Most evenings, they have their dinner on TV trays as they watch rented videos or an old-movie channel...
...concert to take place in the cage, a pad would have to be purchased to protect the floor, Phillips said. The Harvard administration has already promised to buy the pad for such events, but it would have to be persuaded to do so before the concert, he added...
...1940s the Vanguard was a launching pad for black folk singers like Leadbelly, Josh White and Harry Belafonte. Pete Seeger arrived with the Weavers in 1949. That year Gordon married a woman who was an ardent jazz fan, and by the end of the '50s the Vanguard had become the world's premier showcase for modern jazz at the highest level. Gordon had a genius for discovering talent very early, recalls his 72-year-old widow Lorraine, who has run the club since he died in 1989. "That's why people like Wynton Marsalis still come back every year...