Word: padding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...then astronomers had turned their wartime technology to the peaceful pursuit of stargazing. Rockets equipped with X-ray detectors roared off the pad. Soaring high above the atmosphere, which prevents celestial X rays from reaching the earth, they enabled astronomers to begin charting X-ray sources in the heavens. Old radar antennas were converted into sensitive radio telescopes, making it possible for scientists to listen to more of the sky's puzzling beeps, squeals and hums. Some of this noise came from so-called radio galaxies that were all but invisible in the mirrors and lenses of ordinary optical telescopes...
...empty helicopter pad is a forlorn reminder of power brutally rescinded. The scraggly-haired surfers shoulder their boards in the morning sun and scuff down the nearby path to their emerald waves, unmindful of Richard Nixon, who stirs beyond the fence in the skeletal complex that used to be the Western White House...
Gardener, Irvin Williams has been harvesting sprigs of chives, rosemary, thyme and marjoram to give the summer table a little lift. The First Couple are down to two meals a day as heat climbs. But they have other nourishments, like the pad, pad of the bare feet of Grandson Jamie, 18 months, and Shelby Foote's novel September September...
...camper-trailer haulers or owners of the cruder class of recreational vehicles. The distinction is not so much an economic or social delineation as a statement: the esteemed "goose egg" FMCA plaque on the front of a vehicle, be it a mansion of the macadam or a turnpike retirement pad, means that it is a livable, functioning home. Its owner belongs to what may be the largest extended family in America...
...asked Harrison Forman to accompany me to Chiang's office, for he had photographs of famine conditions. His pictures clearly showed dogs standing over dugout corpses. The Generalissimo's knee began to jiggle slightly, in a nervous tic. He took out his little pad and brush pen and began to make notes. He asked for names of officials; he wanted more names; he wanted us to make a full report to him, leaving out no names. In a flat manner, as if restating a fact to himself, he said that he had told the army to share...