Word: padded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even while it took pride in the performance of the infrared telescope, NASA last week was confronted by new difficulties with the troubled space shuttle Challenger. Standing forlornly on its Florida pad since Nov. 30, the gleaming $1 billion orbiter will probably not be launched before mid-March at the earliest, two months late. Reason: a hazardous hydrogen leak required the removal last week of one of Challenger's three main rocket engines, a task never before attempted while a shuttle was still on the pad...
...Kimberly, beautiful wife of Kleenex Heir James Kimberly. The judge felt sorry for Pulitzer, he wrote, when he saw "the embarrassment, painful hurt and frustrating concern exuding from his doleful eyes and aging face." At the same time, "the wife nonchalantly sat at the table doodling on a note pad as though unconcerned." Later in the trial, the judge added, he was "somewhat relieved when the wife finally broke into tears. . . indicating that she was, after all, capable of human emotion and concern...
Freshman goaltender Grant Blair stopped 26 Saint shots, a lot of them true testers that he swept away with flourishing pad and skate saves...
...really qualified to solve those of his patients. Roy Scheider brings a rare credibility to his role, freeing his character from the stereotype of the movie psychiatrist. His Dr. Rice is not the self-assured Freudian father figure who sits comfortably back in his chair, doodling on a pad of paper. Instead, Scheider often seems just as unsure of himself as any patient. In one sequence, Rice steals Brooke's keys and sneaks through the auction house where she works, in an attempt to search her desk for evidence. Suddenly, he stops and says aloud. "This is dumb." The abruptness...
...shot between Blair's legs from about 10 feet out, but, Blair said later. "I got it with part of my pad and kicked it wide." After that the Princeton attack vanished; the Tigers put only three shots on net in the final period...