Word: piped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jacob was never much. His mother died of consumption when he was very small. Papa Djugashvili (who later called himself Stalin) used to try to toughen up little Jacob's lungs by blowing pipe smoke in his face. So Jacob took up smoking before he was ten; and his father had to beat him for that...
...pictures were rushed to a big port-complexioned Briton, Sir Richard Peirse, Chief of the Bomber Command. Knocking out his pipe and shutting off his notoriously favorite pipe dream-a dreadnought bomber with high enough ceiling, great enough speed and sure enough armament to make any fighter useless-Air Marshal Peirse set "interpretive experts" to work plotting the exact location of ships, number of planes necessary for a thorough job, other mechanical details. Then Sir Richard sat down with his staff and Fighter and Coastal Command liaison officers to discuss tactics: time and place of rendezvous, level of attack, number...
...literally ran upstairs to his big, high-ceilinged office on the second floor. There he rushes all day-reading reports at his neat walnut desk, drafting concise memos for the War Cabinet, gulping down a chop and an apple for lunch, talking with aides and prodding them with his pipe stem, phoning, planning, dining at one of his clubs, scurrying back to his office and driving himself until small hours...
After a hard day, the doctor is comfortably settled with pipe & slippers-and the telephone rings. Does he answer the phone? Of course. But in the British Lancet last week, an anonymous doctor revealed a "valued little secret"-a deception not specifically forbidden by the letter of the Hippocratic oath...
Clement Attlee, the Lord Privy Seal, is to Mrs. Strauss a "little man with inconspicuous features and a toothbrush moustache," who, to make matters worse, has "a suburban background . . . smokes a pipe, loves to potter in his garden and do odd jobs of carpentry." "At a recent Labor Conference he was taken ill on the first day, and for the rest of the week was absent-and no one missed him." Mrs. Strauss is somewhat shocked that while "Attlee appears to have a deep humility, it is not quite deep enough" to make him "resign from the leadership...