Word: piped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Only a Couple of Hours." All over the nation, citizens swamped newspapers with requests for the latest report on "the little girl." Midgets, jockeys and schoolboys volunteered to go down the well pipe after Kathy. David Fiscus refused. The danger of their becoming wedged or badly cut in the well casing was too great...
...couple of hours more now." Again & again, there were fresh delays: Tempers were short; arguments flared over what might have been done. At last diggers, deep in the shaft, began to tunnel laterally toward Kathy's iron prison. Whitey was only a few shovelfuls away from the well pipe, when he was hauled to the surface, his face angry and set. There was water in his boots. Slowly at first, then faster, water poured into the tunnel. Digging stopped...
Cutting the Pipe. Nearly 48 hours after Kathy's fall, the lateral tunnel reached the well pipe. But rescue was hours away. Drill after drill broke. Doggedly, the workmen tried a pneumatic saw. Over the loudspeaker, the screech of their drilling sawed like a file on taut nerves. Finally at 6 o'clock Sunday night they asked that the microphones be turned off. There was a paralyzed wait that dragged on to two hours...
...spite of his blue eyes and fair skin, he is likely to assert solemnly that he is one-eighth Cherokee Indian. His parents say: "He's liable to tell you anything." Asked about his birthplace, Chuck says: "Ah come from so far up the holler, they had to pipe daylight...
Chao Tse-chen, 61, dean of the School of Religion at Peiping's Yenching University, is an austere, kindly man who wears his thinning gray hair in a close-cropped stubble, and occasionally smokes a pipe. Known among his students as "T.C.," he is easily the most popular Christian teacher in China...