Word: piped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unison, they play such lilting Scots tunes as Thistle Green and Wee MacGregor. On their heels, majestically slow, come 28 pipers and twelve drummers in a stunning rendition of standard Black Watch ceremonials. The Crimean Reveille starts with a single, furiously impatient bugle call that gives way to the pipes and drums skirling and moaning through The Soldier's Return and other wild pipe tunes-The Green Hills of Tyrol, King George V's Army, The Highland Laddie...
Tall, spare, drill-pipe-straight Michael Late (after the doctor who delivered him) Benedum got into the oil business in the days when "anybody could drill for oil that was of a mind to. I don't remember ever meeting a geologist or even hearing the word." Benedum, son of a West Virginia cabinetmaker, teamed up with an oilfield roughneck named Joe Trees, and hit oil in Pleasants County, West Va. in 1895. He was soon making $1,500 to $2,000 a month from the property, and drilling more wells, at one point brought in eleven straight producers...
...owns 31% of Plymouth Oil Co. (assets: $90 million), is the man behind Penn-Ohio Gas Co., Melben Oil Co., Republic Pipe Line Co., Cavalier Oil Co., Bentex Oil Co., half a dozen others with combined assets of well in the hundred millions. He is also the biggest stockholder in Ohio Oil Co. and the largest individual stockholder in International Petroleum...
...Democrat is considered by many to have a pipe-line to the governor and high members of his administration...
...screen with almost as much distinction as his art. In his cluttered studio in the south of France, the 75-year-old artist sketched a town scene, fashioned a big-beaked bird from a freshly molded clay vase and made a figure on the floor from a clay pipe, broken bits of pottery and an olive branch. But he never uttered a sound. "I do not talk," Picasso had told NBC. "I only paint." In a fascinating finale, Pablo, bare-chested and wearing soiled black shorts, clambered up a ladder and with no preliminary sketches drew dancing goddesses across...