Word: pads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bone (HarperCollins; 390 pages; $22). And that is how I got lost, and the story got kind of lost too. Not that I was doing that well before, with my mother and stepfather kicking me out for shoplifting, and having to crash at my friend Ken's pad, which was taken over by some really stupid but also scary motorhead bikers...
...accused the founders of the new RepublicanAlliance of wanting to pad their resumes with thefounding of a new organization...
...that an explosion had destroyed part of a federal building in Oklahoma City. Stay on top of it, Clinton replied. The President then escorted Ciller to a meeting in the Cabinet Room. It was there that Leon Panetta, Clinton's chief of staff, passed the President a yellow legal pad with notes scribbled across the page with Panetta's trademark blue felt-tip pen. "Half of federal building in O.K. City blown up--expect heavy casualties," the note read. "Called Janet Reno--she has dispatched...
...NORMAN MAILER STILL ROCKS BACK and forth on the balls of his feet when he talks. He still leaves the impression of a compact nuclear device as drawn by Herblock--shaking slightly on its launch pad, Yoda-shaped and oracular, although somewhat mellowed by the years. He is capable now of an occasional shrug that says, "Who knows...
...from the embassy were mostly Vietnamese, more and more Americans came out as the evacuation progressed. Snepp caught a chopper out at 9 p.m. on April 29. His description: "The roof of the embassy was a vision out of a nightmare. In the center of the dimly lit helo-pad, a CH-47 was already waiting for us, its engines setting up a roar like a primeval scream. The crew and controllers all wore what looked like oversized football helmets, and in the blinking under-light of the landing signals they reminded me of grotesque insects rearing on their hindquarters...