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Some key numbers described in the manuscript were apparently padded. Using those cooked-up figures, Suzuki was able to convince undecided leaders that Japan could secure the logistical supplies needed to wage war against the U.S., said Atsushi Moriyama, associate professor at the University of Shizuoka, noting this argument helped persuade Japan to embark on a hopeless fight.
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"If I knew the story of every individual who went through here, I would probably be in a padded cell."
WILLIAM ZWICHAROWSKI,
the Dover Port Mortuary branch chief, who prepares the remains of
United States military personnel for burial.
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IN EARLY autumn a pilgrimage of sorts takes place in Japan. People ride the bullet train from Tokyo, pass through a long tunnel in the mountains west of the capital and emerge in Niigata, one of the richest rice-growing regions in the country. They travel to see the harvest, which takes place as the leaves on the trees are turning red and the chestnuts start to fall. But it is not as bucolic as it could be, because Japan’s love of rice is matched only by its attachment to concrete. On one mountain, where you look out over a breathtaking patchwork of ripe paddy fields, an observation tower looms over the valley like Godzilla.
pad
━━[動] （〜・ded, 〜・ding）(他)
1 〈物に〉当て［詰め］物をする, 〈入れ物に〉いっぱい詰める, 〈衣類に〉パッドを入れる((out))
a padded cell
壁にクッションを張った安全保護室（▼精神病患者用など）
壁にクッションを張った安全保護室（▼精神病患者用など）
a man padded with flesh
((比喩))肉づきのよい男.
((比喩))肉づきのよい男.
2 〈文章・演説などを〉引き延ばす((out))；〈経費・人員などを〉水増しする, 〈帳簿・名簿などに〉水増しして記入する.
pad out
((米俗))寝る.tr.v. pad·ded, pad·ding, pads
1. To line or stuff with soft material.
2. To lengthen or increase, especially with extraneous or false information: pad a lecture with jokes; pad an expense account.
pad
Pronunciation: /pad/
Definition of pad
noun
verb (pads, padding, padded)
[with object]
If you pad out a speech or piece of writing, you add unnecessary words or information to make it longer or to hide the fact that you are not saying anything very important.
Origin:
mid 16th century (in the sense 'bundle of straw to lie on'): the senses may not be of common origin; the meaning 'underpart of an animal's foot' is perhaps related to Low German pad 'sole of the foot'; the history remains obscurepatch·work (păch'wûrk')
n.
- Needlework consisting of varicolored patches of material sewn together, as in a quilt.
- A collection of miscellaneous or incongruous parts; a jumble.
bu·col·ic (byū-kĭk)
adj.
1. Of or characteristic of the countryside or its people; rustic. See synonyms at rural.
2. Of or characteristic of shepherds or flocks; pastoral.
n.
1. A pastoral poem.
2. A farmer or shepherd; a rustic.
[Latin būcolicus, pastoral, from Greek boukolikos, from boukolos, cowherd : bous, cow + -kolos, herdsman.]
bucolically bu·col'i·cal·ly adv.
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