Word: piped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sunny day last July, Mechanic Billy Smith, 25, went on the job to reline a steel furnace at the U.S. Pipe & Foundry Co. in Decoto, Calif., south of Oakland. Overhead a giant hook dangled from a traveling crane. In a freak accident, the hook crashed down on Billy Smith's right leg and severed it just above the knee. For three hours and 35 minutes, Billy Smith's leg was kept with his body only by a two-inch-wide ribbon of skin...
...instead of tubes," the Gamma 3 proved a versatile workhorse computer, led Machines Bull engineers to design the new Gamma 60 line. The Gamma 60s, coming out in January, are the last word in "simultaneous" computer design, are as far ahead of the Gamma 35, says Callies, as a pipe organ is ahead of a flute. Costing $1,000,000 to $3,000,000 each, depending on the number of components used, the 60s can make 10,000 additions, 3,333 multiplications, 1,666 divisions and 10,000 mathematical decisions each second. One part of the computer even acts...
Director Helmut Kautner's point is that loneliness and pride make communication well-nigh impossible between people. The seventeen-year-old girl feels she must invent rich relatives, fiancees, pipe dreams, in order to be loved, and these lies set up a terrible barrier between herself and the boy who would love her. He feels too proud to marry a rich girl when he is too poor to support even himself and a duck. Similarly, the married woman thinks she has to go on sleeping with her husband and her other lover so Jacques--soft, revolting Jacques--won't lose...
...Walter Raleigh was slated for unveiling in London's Whitehall Park this week. But same day, Britain's National Society of Non-Smokers plans to celebrate the 341st anniversary of Explorer Raleigh's beheading by a royal ax-swinger. Reason: taking a leaf from the pipe of Virginia's Indians, Sir Walter is accused of being the villain who introduced tobacco into England...
...Palermo had demanded a piece of the earnings of Welterweight Don Jordan shortly before he became champion in December. Leonard said that Palermo's demands were later backed up by Carbo himself, added that he began getting phone calls threatening bodily harm ("It'll be with a pipe wrapped in a paper sack"). But Manager Don Nesseth, 33, had flatly refused to knuckle under, and, according to the indictment, Leonard had handed over only $1,725. After the hearings, Leonard landed in a hospital, claimed that he had been bludgeoned while closing his garage door. While Carbo...