Word: pads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this stretch, setting four straight buckets to bring the Crimson within one. Then it was Mufi Hanneman's turn. The senior forward hit a baseline jumper with 3:10 on the clock to put the Crimson in front. And 42 seconds later he dished in a layup to pad the short-lived three point lead...
...religion heavily based on a pair of long-lost golden tablets brings snickers here, so the spirituality of Mormonism clashes with the pre-professionalism that prevails here. While Mormons are certainly not opponents of the return to academics, they do not spend their Sundays at the University branch to pad their resumes and applications...
...play Jimmy Connors and other stars he meets while working. Reporter-Researcher Jay Rosenstein had a typically humbling experience while interviewing the Steelers' defensive tackle "Mean" Joe Greene at his Texas home for this week's story. At one point Rosenstein looked up from his note pad and noticed that Greene's two-year-old daughter had fallen into the swimming pool. Rosenstein, who played club football at the University of Pittsburgh and considers himself reasonably agile, threw his notes aside and dived into the pool. But as he thrashed furiously, he saw a "large shape" pass...
With the Belknap's communications gear knocked out, Captain Walter R. Shafer had to shout commands from the bridge to his crew. Some of his men were forward, and the rest were aft around the helicopter pad. Because of the fierce blaze amidships, they were cut off from each other, and for a while the men in each group were afraid they were the sole survivors. On the forward deck, rescue crews carried wounded and burned men to a comparatively safe area in front of the missile housing, where they lay on the deck in a cold, drizzling rain...
Southern California, the launching pad of fads, is in the grip of a revival as frenetic as any ever whipped up by an evangelist. The skateboard has returned as the favorite platform of the well-balanced athlete. After ten years in the recreational limbo reserved for Hula-Hoops and yo-yos, the surfboard on wheels is already the preferred mode of propulsion-and sleight of foot-for an estimated 2 million Southern Californians, and their numbers are increasing by as many as 5,000 a day. The skateboarding craze may already claim around 30 million enthusiasts nationwide. Los Angeles manufacturers...