Word: wadding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that "this means there is trouble," but submitted with dignity. He appeared fully dressed, arms above his head, wrists together, ready for handcuffs. Not so Okotie-Eboh, known throughout Nigeria as the king of "dash"-the word used throughout West Africa for the ever-present bribery. Producing a thick wad of bills, he tried to buy off his captors, then, dressed in pajamas, ran outside, screaming "Don't kill me!" until two soldiers knocked him down and jumped on him. His body was found three days later in a ditch 30 miles from Lagos. Not far away...
Picasso & Pop. The museum was a triumph of individualistic donations. Its pavilions were named for their donors, the late realtor Leo S. Bing, Bankers Bart Lytton and Howard Ahmanson, who laid out a total of $3,675,000. Industrialist Norton Simon gave a $250,000 wad as well as a loan of $15 million in art treasures. From the movie colony (Billy Wilder, Bob Hope and Burt Lancaster) came a flood of art from Picasso to pop. Capping it all was Simon's loan of the $2,234,400 Titus by Rembrandt. To keep the floodgates open, the trustees...
...Babu Mio, My Golden Girl), and guzzled bromide by the bottle. He was a fiercely vocal champion of artistic integrity who forced publishers to print the works of half-baked eccentrics. He was a noisily relentless foe of vested interests and social injustice who admired Machiavelli and kept a wad of money in the stock market. He was a mystic. He was also a powerful and, for his time, persuasive novelist...
...Brandeis duo found themselves less and less able to do so. They made several trips to the rest rooms and finally just sat surfeited and watched Beer stuff in the final, decisive wad of pancakes...
...rays taken after air and dye had been injected into the joint showed that the main trouble was on the inside. The medial meniscus, one of the two pads of cartilage that lie between the thigh and shinbone (see diagram), was torn and rolled back in a tight wad. This explained why Namath had not been able to straighten his leg completely: just as a folded newspaper stuck between a door and its jamb will keep the door ajar, so the ball of cartilage kept Na-math's knee hinge from swinging all the way as he tried...