Word: pads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is the danger that the Communists will shell the airports. There is also the grim possibility that South Vietnamese forces will turn their guns on Tan Son Nhut, Newport, or even the American embassy's small rooftop heli copter pad if the Americans make a move to evacuate. Given the anti-Americanism that flared in Danang and Nha Trang before they fell, it is hard to say who might pose the greater threat-Communist enemy or South Vietnamese friend...
...jobs included: lifeguard in nearby Ormond until thrown off the corps for dereliction of his tower (he took long lunches); mate on a charter fishing boat; bagman for a big lettuce caper; treasure hunter for a load of cocaine left in the ground by dealers near an old launching pad near Cape Canaveral (foiled by a flash flood); and stunt car driver for a shoestring film that ran out of money. His heritage was Greek, and he knew all about fencing things in underground Daytona, and who burned down what restaurant for what insurance money...
...pad was all that Muhlstock needed, although the Quaker batsmen did oblige him with another marker the result of three singles in the seventh inning...
...Crimson won all twelve games it played in Daytona, and while those colleges might not have been the southern baseball powers, the victories help pad Harvard's intercollegiate record...
...Americans. No longer did those benevolent trucks show up loaded with bags of rice stamped "U.S.A.," nor were there the blankets or all those well-armed G.I.s waving and smiling to the children. Two of us got out of a Jeep with a camera and a note pad, looked around and asked a few questions. The Vietnamese used to tolerate the attention of these little inspection trips because they anticipated that, invariably, it would bring them something better. Now they know it will bring them nothing but a few muttered apologies, and they reveal a palpable sense of abandonment. "Look...