Word: piped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest battle of the War in China so far this year has proved that General Itagaki's dream is a pipe dream unless the Japanese are willing to put many more men into the field. The Japanese, attempting to drive south across the Yellow River, succeeded in splitting the Chinese front in two above the river, and in establishing ferry heads on the river itself...
Last January TIME'S Berlin correspondent, accompanied by German officials, visited Wodehouse in prison, took him pipe tobacco, a pipe, cigarets, candy, soap, mystery books. They found him well fed ("bloated" was his word), having received Red Cross parcels and cheese, butter and jam from Denmark. He had "a sort of private room" in a house at one end of the camp where he was writing a serial for the Saturday Evening Post which he has tentatively titled Money in the Bank. His main worry was that he had not paid his U.S. income taxes. When he was told...
...Hell and Maria") Dawes, 75, former Vice President who made the underslung pipe famous, quit smoking...
Told how the Arabs are bribed to go along the pipeline, dig a hole, build a fire and when the pipe gets hot, shoot a hole. The geyser of oil catches fire. The British-French-American oil people have airport and hospital stockades every 60 miles - send out repair men by airplane and fix the fire hole within two or three hours. Bill cruised every foot of Iraq with a Kurdish interpreter and 16 Arabs-got interested in Biblical lore, measured the marks left by Noah's flood, reconstructed the story of the ark. Says Noah was a pitch...
Pascal: "I have taken back all my heavy cigars, and exchanged them for very mild . . . ones. I no longer smoke at all during the day. . . . Very soon I shall only smoke . . . once a week. After that' I shall buy a pipe...