Word: piped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rented ten acres and an old farmhouse near Torrance, Calif., for 27 years grew berries and tomatoes. Genzo retired three years ago, moved into a big, rambling home in Hollywood. There he sat last week, in U.S. clothes but wearing a black skull cap, peacefully smoking a pipe. Two of Genzo's six sons are in the Army. But Son Isamu Horino, 26, is a tough, wiry Nisei boy with a shock of unkempt hair and a stubborn jaw. He never did like the way white citizens treated him. (But he went to school in Japan for a while...
...wave came over, bomb fragments wounded a pilot and two mechanics in a trench flanking the runway. An A.V.G. doctor lugged the pilot to a jeep and drove it across the field to a hospital, with Jap bullets chasing him in the dust like puffs from his own exhaust pipe. One of the mechanics died. In an ambulance plane the pilot and the other mechanic were carried over the mountains to Calcutta...
...field glasses, saw the Italian fleet on the horizon. Said he to the Chicago Daily News's Richard Mowrer: "Well, it's been nice knowing you." Mowrer's throat was too dry for reply; he nodded, and admired a British captain calmly ramming tobacco into his pipe...
Music. In Chicago, John and Xenia Cage, tired of the old musical sounds, gave a concert with a beer bottle, a barrel, flower pots, an iron pipe, brake drums, thunder sheets, rattles, dinnerbells and buzzers. Mr. Cage played the piano with his elbows...
...with Gaffer Sitherthwick and John Willie Braithwaite in The Spread Eagle and with explaining the mysteries of politics to a delightful collie bitch (who could talk). Then war caught up with Sam. As an auxiliary constable, with the help of an affectionate hound and a length of lead pipe, he caught two Nazi spies; later he felt forced to use his forbidden talent once again, to save England. In the course of that adventure he had to talk to Hitler ("Heil you!" said Sam, "Heil me!" Adolf replied) and, before he could get any sensible action at home...