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Word: pads (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reagan tried to work it out himself on a scratch pad and came out with 60 miles; the Bureau of Engraving and Printing provided the correct figure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Challenge to Change: Reagan calls for an end to spendthrift Big Government | 3/2/1981 | See Source »

...called themselves 'Raygan.' " As the group laughs, Reagan scoops a handful of jelly beans from a glass vase and puts them on the table before him. He will eat them, one at a time, as the discussion goes on. He also doodles on a White House memo pad; his genre is comic-strip caricature, vintage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Day in the Life of the New President: Ronald Reagan | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

...last Wednesday. Neither of the two drafts that aides had prepared for the TV speech he was to deliver 41 hours later-his first from the White House-sounded quite right to him. So the President got up in the predawn darkness to scribble on a yellow legal pad, beginning a painstaking rewrite that continued later with the help of speechwriters and ended only five hours before he went on-camera in the Oval Office. Though Reagan rarely carries cash, he made a point of bringing a dollar bill into one session with his advisers, but forgot to take coins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The 36C Buck Stops Here | 2/16/1981 | See Source »

Wade Lau making pad saves, and stick saves and glove saves. Wade Lau challenging the Eagle forwards like he never challenged opposing forwards in his life. Wade Lau sliding and diving and sprawling Wade Lau culminating his revival from an almost season-long slump at exactly the right time. Wade Lau doing everything he had to do and more...

Author: By Mike Bass, | Title: Most Valuable: Wade Lau | 2/10/1981 | See Source »

...five of whom are writing books on the case. "I feel Mrs. Harris' behavior on the witness stand is outrageous," said one of them. "She sits there outsmarting everyone, trying to seduce the jury without the slightest remorse." Said another author, Shana Alexander, looking up from her note pad: "I feel great sympathy for her because I recognize bits of myself. I've had the same problems with pills and men. I've been there." The defendant's younger son, Marine Corps Lieutenant James Harris, paced outside the courtroom, reluctant to enter. Said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Things She Did for Love | 2/9/1981 | See Source »

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