Word: pads
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attempted loft shot, Lord overran the ball and fell, knocking it back to Foster. Foster, now inside the circle, lifted the ball over Lord and the goalie's outstretched pad for the tying goal...
Within a few months, Phillips' 16-man Harlem unit was on the "pad" -that is, collecting graft*-from a variety of gambling operations. When a new man joined the unit, he was quickly scrutinized to see if he would fit in. "You can make a phone call and find out in five minutes who the individual is, what his habits are and whether or not he takes money," Phillips said. When a cop was transferred to a new post, the pad from his old station kept up for another two months. "Severance pay?" asked the investigating commission...
...drops everything to sit before the TV set and wait for The Edge of Night, a soap opera that, for some inexplicable reason, never fails to enthrall him. At four, Wodehouse begins to write. If he is into a novel, he sits down at his desk with a legal pad and a Royal electric. "I used to be able to get down 2,000 words a day," he laments. "Now I'm happy if I can do 1,000." If he is still in the thinking stage, however, he sits in an armchair, his pipe rack beside...
...easy to persuade people not to see what they were looking at, not to hear what was said -in short, not to interfere. That atmosphere hung heavy at Dinh Binh, a tiny hamlet two miles down a mud footpath from the nearest village big enough to have a helicopter pad. At high noon, clusters of Vietnamese stood idly between the Catholic church and the school that housed the polling stations. Why was no one voting? "It's lunchtime," a national policeman explained. Reminded that the polls were to be open from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. with no break...
...Attorney Edward Hanrahan, had conspired to obstruct justice by covering up for the police and interfering with the defense of seven surviving Panthers accused of attempted murder. Indicted on the same charges were Hanrahan's assistant, who planned the raid, the eight policemen who entered the Panther pad and four other cops who subsequently became involved in the investigation. Police Superintendent James Conlisk was named as a coconspirator, but was not indicted...