Word: piped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stage extending across the room. On this journey he demonstrates his acrobatic agility by paddling the arms through the air. Tradition likes to remember the time over-exuberance ended him up flat on the floor. The wandering begins to assume the likeness of a relay-race; a favorite heating pipe near the window must be tagged before the return to the desk. But the hike may be interrupted by a noisy sneezing attack requiring a five to ten minute clean up job, accompanied by an incoherent lecture muffled by his towel-sized handkerchief. Invariably there is a periodical clothes-adjusting...
...bucking the railroads, who lobby against pipelines just as resolutely as they used to wreck them in the oil wars of the '80s. Their most successful lobby is in Georgia. Pure Oil and Gulf, trying to run a line from Port St. Joe in Florida to Chattanooga, laid pipe on much of the route, but could not get permission to close the gaps across the railroads' rights...
...action" of Mutual's affiliates. Mutual President Wilbert E. Macfarlane pled lengthily for ratification, while ASCAP officials lurked hopefully near by. Neville Miller's pleas and the opposition of John Shepard III, bulky, argumentative president of New England's Yankee and Colonial networks whose stations pipe in many a big-chain program, deadlocked the voters...
...strange metal bird which has gazed down on the Gold Coast over since the building was erected near the turn of the century was neatly cut from its moorings, leaving the rest of the long, pipe-like structure which supported it untouched. The information was received at this office at too late an hour for Lampoon editors to be questioned regarding who they think the agile culprit may be; however, Yard police said they had found no clues or hints as to the thief or thieves' identities...
...nations to prepare against them. Germany, said Kokumin, "remains a sphinx and acts unexpectedly with lightning speed." By coincidence, only three days earlier the Japan Times and Advertiser, English-language organ of the Foreign Office, had published an "abstract exploration for a possible world peace" which was either a pipe dream of the future or the frankest, completest and grimmest Fascist plan to date for the New World Order...