Word: piped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next morning. Mr. Jones checked the workmen's reports with a pipe map. Suddenly he saw what had happened. Off he dashed to close the valve. But it was too late. Some four million gallons of filthy water from the thaw-high Genesee had poured into Rochester drinking water. The city faced a typhoid epidemic...
...down and seriously began quoting various prices, tried to show the bargain value of some of them. The sailor left for his room back aft in a fog and forgot the whole thing while the captain still sat around and pulled at a wheezing corncob pipe...
...Baldwin, pipe-sucking Willkie stentor, who had actually balanced the State budget during his able administration. He was beaten by Democrat Robert A. Hurley, State Public Works Commissioner, who was running for his first elective office...
...wait. A gap is a low place between mountain peaks. It is a place both deer and humans seek to cross mountains. Deer are just as lazy as humans. > "If you fire your arrow at a deer and think you've hit him, sit down, fill your pipe. Smoke it all the way through. Then get up and look for your deer. If you hit him, that will give him time to lie down and bleed. Then he can't run away." > "You boys with your bows & arrows, you be careful. I don't want...
...which included two Italian destroyers. She chased the 1,058-ton Francesco Nullo to shore, shelling her so she had to be beached. While the Kimberley was polishing off the Nullo with a torpedo, three field guns ashore opened up on her. Splinters from one hit damaged a steam pipe, reduced the speed of the Kimberley. Because her silhouette is not unlike the Sydney's, mistaking the Kimberley for a cruiser might be understandable. But the Italians' gloss-over of their loss of another destroyer was something else. It was further evidence that the Italian Navy, in which...