Word: padded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dark Coasting. For two nights Pioneer IV was held on its pad, once because of low clouds, and once because a radio instrument failed to function. On the third night the bird lifted off only 4 seconds late. The Jupiter fired for 182 seconds. As it passed through a high veil of cloud, a bluish ring formed around its orange tail flame like a ring around the moon. After 55 seconds of dark coasting, a faint light bloomed in the sky as the second-stage rockets fired. Then Pioneer IV disappeared...
Banging the Pad. During World War II, Gleason landed in Lisbon with the Office of War Information, used to delight in driving German generals from nightclubs by playing fumble-thumbed jazz on a piano backed up by a Vichy French clarinetist, an English bass man, and a West African drummer. He caught on with the Chronicle in 1950, now lives with his wife and three children in a red-shingled house beset by his 3,000-album record collection, which grows and coils from room to room. As he listens and listens, he hammers out the beat on a pad...
...Human Scratch-Pad" and dermographia [extreme sensitivity of the skin-Jan. 19]: as a long sufferer of this complaint, I thought you might be interested in knowing that it had one positive aspect for me. When I was younger, nothing quite so impressed a girl on a day at the beach as emblazoning her name on my forearm in bright, raised letters. It served to cement a number of relationships. Alas, the girls get older and wiser (and more difficult to impress), and dermographic penmanship no longer does the trick...
...Force's Titan intercontinental ballistic missile, black-and-white-striped and tall as a ten-story building, boomed off the launching pad at Cape Canaveral last week, roared up 50 miles or so through a long-awaited break in the grey overcast, plopped its no tons into the warm Atlantic 300 miles downrange (maximum hoped-for range: 9,000 miles). The U.S.'s first successful firing of a second-generation ICBM (after Atlas) brought cheers from airmen and Titan's Martin Co. crew, weary from a two-month fight against the gremlins that unaccountably popped its umbilical...
...could find breathing room in a sealed bank vault. Tough as Mike Hammer, suave as Peter Gunn, canny as the D.A.'s Man, Bold Venture's hero digs gems out of camellia buds, teeth out of the other guy's mouth and dames out of the pad. Before the show had its first airing last month, its sunny, sexy sadism had attracted more than too TV stations. Yet Bold Venture has no network and will never know the mingled joy of a national Nielsen rating. Like many of TV's adventure series, e.g., Highway Patrol...