Word: piped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American standards the center is crude indeed. Its restroom is bare earth covered with canvas to keep out the rain. The washroom is one pipe of running water. The cloakroom will mend patched garments, or exchange better rags for those beyond mending. A free milk line serves half a bowlful to each child under five; then, if the child does not vomit from an unaccustomed stomach, he may have another half bowlful...
...last week the San Luis Obispo road -the valley's only outlet-was jammed with trucks carrying oil to the coast, and pipe and rigs back into Cuyama. Each day brought in new hopefuls who pitched tents, built rickety lean-tos, rigged up their equipment with floodlights for around-the-clock drilling. To carry away the oil, Richfield was laying a 35-mile, 6-inch pipeline to connect with a bigger one that ran to Los Angeles County. Richfield has given the contractor ten days to complete the line...
They bought everything from racetrack tickets to cemetery plots; they even started paying old doctors' bills. Some people, like the oldster who lit his pipe with a 50-mark note last week, literally burned their money. Black-market prices soared: probably for the last time, one U.S. cigarette sold for 50 marks. After the reform, it was hoped, the cigarette-for three years Germany's generally accepted exchange medium-would again be something you smoked...
...last week the Mukden garrison was hanging on. They were even momentarily confident, largely because the expected Communist offensive was two months overdue. Ruddy-cheeked, pipe-smoking Commanding General Wei Li-huang thought perhaps the Reds had not replaced the losses suffered in last fall's attacks. But, though the Communist attacks were beaten off, it was at heavy cost: the Reds had captured foodstuffs which might have fed the city for 15 months...
...they try a cigarette. So he divided the steady smokers into inhalers and non-inhalers, and tested them again. The non-inhalers showed no significant increase in finger tremor. But the fingers of the inhalers trembled like aspen leaves: 82% more than before they began the cigarette. Cigar and pipe inhalers reacted the same way too. Moral: if you like to smoke but not to tremble, don't inhale...