Word: piped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pitchfork & Pipe. The sounds carried to the nearby elephant barns. A frail, 58-year-old trainer named Rudy Muller heard them, came running to the arena with a pitchfork and an eight-foot length of iron pipe. He went inside, carefully locked the door, and advanced on Sultan. He stabbed the lion in the side with the pitchfork. The big cat winced and spun. Without a second's pause Muller smashed him between the ears with the pipe. The lion staggered, sat back on his hind legs...
...delighted with the snowflakes (the kind "that wear well"); but by the Christmas season of 1949, improvements had been made even in this department. Manhattan's Rockefeller Center designed its own snowflakes: they were of plastic, 19 inches in diameter, held by a pin to a 10-foot pipe...