Word: piped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pushbutton War. Talk of "revolutionary new weapons" sound uneasily like the old pushbutton warfare pipe dream once charged to the Air Force. It also was likely to give rise to some of the old Maginot Line thinking, of the superiority of the defense, and the delusion of security at cut rates. But the fact was that while the Army still had no atomic artillery under test, it did have some fine new weapons, including some that might spell the doom of the dreaded tank. Beneath all of last week's sales talk, though it was so conceitedly ebullient...
...Pipe Dream...
...present the U.N. is Russia's most effective weapon in the hot & cold war . . . It lulls Americans into a pipe dream of security while their Government economizes its way toward defeat in World...
...Police Edward J. Allen of Youngstown, Ohio, who had already told the committee: "If it wasn't for corrupt politicians, I might say Frankie Costello wouldn't be in the position he is today." Racketeers like Costello, he added, "all start out with a piece of lead pipe in their hands...
...Hilltop House. Three months ago on the island of Guernsey, fellow bank clerks began to notice that gaunt, hound-eared Tom Hugo was becoming more & more abstracted about the water pipe supplying his house on a hilltop in St. Peter Port. The water pipe, which Tom considered his own, was already feeding two houses, and Tom had learned that soon the waterworks were planning to add another two houses on the line. If that were done, thought Tom, there would be scarcely a trickle left for himself and his family of eight. He plunged deep into Guernsey law, studying what...