Word: padding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...team as it runs the race, so he runs from check point to check point to meet the runners and give vocal encouragement. I was going to be your basic on-the-spot reporter and get lots of valuable quotes, so I ran with him with my pad in one hand and instamatic in the other. He took me through prickers over rocks down cliffs. But it was worth it. I couldn't help thinking how much it must mean to keep hearing your coach telling you that you're doing well: keep it up. I was sweating like...
Also there were a few crumbs of tobacco, and a pad of cheap newsprint that said American Eagle on the cover. I took the pad and used it for writing things down...
...Yelling! The telephone is his fortress, his launching pad, his shepherd's crook. TIME Correspondent Stanley Cloud sat in Graham's San Francisco office one recent morning while Impresario Graham stabbed at the multiple buttons that were perpetually lighting up with incoming calls. "WHAT DID YOU SAY?" he yells, his craggy face contorted, his back hunched. "They want to borrow another $12,000 for musical equipment! Did we supply them with one set already? Yes! Did they insure like I told them to? No! Did they get it stolen? Yes! They've gotta be crazy...
...worked shoulder to shoulder with Egyptians, few friendships developed. In Cairo today, thousands of Russians live clannishly in their own apartment blocks, drink at their own clubs and shop at their own commissaries-from which some of the Soviets purchase extra vodka and sell it to Egyptian merchants to pad their sparse salaries. The Egyptians cannot complain, though, that the Russians shy away from hardships or dangers. Last July as many as six Russian advisers were reportedly killed in an Israeli bombardment...
...newly built private road links it to the adjacent San Mateo Point Coast Guard station, where communications facilities and private buildings have been set up to accommodate the staff members who will accompany him to summer quarters. The station's ball field has been converted into a helicopter pad. Only a ten-minute chopper flight separates Nixon from El Toro Marine Corps Air Station, where Air Force One is to be kept...