Word: piped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...superiors think him bright: he first came to public view in 1938 when he jumped 100 seniority places to become Director of Military Operations and Intelligence. He looks and sounds like a man with the juice of command in him: short, stocky, broad-shouldered, spruce, calm-voiced, neat, a pipe-smoker. He is a man of few words-"a most precise fellow," says a colleague-but the words are peppery and to the point; he once reported a three-hour Imperial war conference in eight lines...
...less than 20 minutes the attackers had taken Butch. In due course Jack fell down and Jill came tumbling after. Tiger, the stiffest of the four, was assigned to a famous Scottish regiment. It went into battle to a sound it loved-its pipe major, who had not been allowed to skirl his bagpipes in Tobruk, played...
...business of creating such a merchant fleet would send a lesser man than Jerry Land gibbering to the hills. He takes it all in stride, mightily helped by craggy, pipe-smoking fellow Commissioner Howard L. Vickery, who is largely responsible for construction. This week Jerry Land felt good about production, but a little wary too. Like any other defense administrator, he didn't know when he might be called to the White House, chucked under the chin and told to step up his shipbuilding still further for the sake of some ally...
...redesigned a 50-year-old pipe-threading machine into a milling machine, a 40-year-old spindle drill press into a vertical milling machine. To start production he hired five Ohio Pen ex-convicts. Three of them, a burglar and two forgers, have since left him for better jobs.* His other employes include students from Ohio State's engineering school, a neighbor, a penitentiary guard on vacation, and his wife. By last week they were on a three-shift, seven-day basis, and Price's home-built machinery has increased to five lathes, three drill presses, three milling...
...MacNeice, conspire to show what noble, or at the least persuasive, music words can make. Its critical discussions are written with an excess of the subsidized self-assurance peculiar to English professors. But none of that leaks into the anthology's text-which is like one great organ pipe, with the life-breath of generations blowing through...