Word: padded
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None of the spectators at the Army's White Sands Missile Range had ever seen anything quite like it. With a burst of smoke and a flash of light, a 40-ft.- tall white obelisk shuddered briefly, popped off a launch pad and rose 150 ft. over the New Mexico desert. Then it suddenly stopped in midair, moved sideways for 350 ft. and started back down, engines firing all the way. At the last moment, four rodlike pods shot out of the tail to ease the bullet-shaped rocket gently to the ground...
...worked for a Corpus Christi newspaper on summer vacations from Columbia University (Phi Beta Kappa, 1960), but was soon disenchanted. "I saw that electronic journalism was the future," he says, "and I didn't want to be that kind of journalist. I was old-fashioned; I wrote on a pad." So he traveled on a grant, started a novel and wrote a play, which got him into the Actors Studio. He worked as a stage manager there too. "I did a lot of moving and sweeping," he says. "But I also saw how some great professionals worked, how they shaped...
Such self-inflicted torments tend to undermine the credibility of Nelson's assault on biracial sexism. So do a number of unnecessarily graphic revelations about Nelson's frantic sex life and drug abuse, which seem to have been included to pad the manuscript. Despite these flaws, Volunteer Slavery is a compelling firsthand report from the corporate combat zone where racial and sexual lines converge and blur in the most dehumanizing ways...
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON KNEW life had changed forever when her daughter Chelsea got sick one night in February and asked her mother to fix one of her favorite dishes. No sooner did the First Lady pad down the hall to the kitchen on the second floor of the family quarters, open the refrigerator and begin cracking eggs than a steward appeared magically at her elbow. He wanted to help by whipping up an omelet. At the risk of hurting his feelings, the most influential woman in America explained that the eggs had to be scrambled and that...
Harvard may have angered the defending champions. It may have awoken a sleeping giant. But then again, it was the first Crimson victory in eight years against the Tigers. That win may serve as a launching pad for a Harvard victory...