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Word: padding (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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NOTE: Be extremely careful to remember that Harvard's women's ice hockey is a second-year Varsity sport with a 13-game schedule. Any attempt to pad your answer by discussing men's ice hockey or field hockey will result in a hopelessly poor score...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: Get Out Your Bluebooks | 12/11/1979 | See Source »

Freshman Alex Lightfoot also gave the audience a reason to stand with a typically strong performance. Lightfoot's third-period cross-checking penalty gave the Bruins a chance to pad their 2-0 lead with a power-play goal; but, as coach Rita Harder said later, "Alex gets penalties from being aggressive...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: Bruins Blank Icewomen, 3-0, Overshadowing Crimson Hustle | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

...their New York apartment and begun to sing. She sings like a gelded Al Jolson. Potter, a writer, ("my stuff is in those airplane magazines right behind the barf bags") escapes to Cambridge. Potter is believable, if wimpy, when he sits in the shadows of his bachelor pad and listens to "The Way We Were." At his brother's urging, he joins a divorced-men's therapy group where one ex-husband plans to marry the same woman for the fourth time and another dreams, at 71, about liver-spotted female hands reaching out to squeeze the last drops from...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: One Sings, the Other Two Don't | 10/31/1979 | See Source »

...guess anybody who wears a uniform or who carries a pen and pad his whole professional life is a Peter Pan by trade: we want to keep our toys and adventures. It makes for an understanding relationship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 29, 1979 | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...went like this: "Hello, I'm calling for the President. How do you intend to vote on the 13th?" If the answer was for Kennedy, the conversation was ended. If the Democrat seemed to favor Carter, the volunteer noted the voter's name on a white legal pad. For those who need transportation, Hochendoner has lined up 50 buses, at an average cost of $100 each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Playing the Florida Game | 10/15/1979 | See Source »

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