Word: piped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...what extent non-smokers like himself have their lives shortened by sitting in smoke-filled rooms. Let me reassure him-not two-fifths of a second. My 79th year sustains this viewpoint. Down the years I have never lessened my smoking, my average being half a pound of pipe tobacco a week and a packet of cigarettes a day. This would work out roughly in 64 years to better than three-quarters of a ton of pipe tobacco-disregarding some hundreds of cigars and thousands of cigarettes...
...water. Under their $28 million plan, cleared during King Saud's state visit to Baghdad last May, the oil-rich Saudis will hire international contractors to draw some 35 million gallons daily at a point near the site of ancient Ur, purify it at the riverside plant, and pipe it some 450 miles across the gravel plains, the heat-parched desert and rocky ridges to the ancestral Saudi oasis that has mushroomed into the modern, air-conditioned, palace-crammed capital city of Riyadh...
...dance the gopak; he did), and a prodigious drinker of yorsh (a potent mass boilermaker made of six pints of beer to iV pints of vodka). Born in a reed-and-mud hut, the son of a miner, he had taught himself to read, worked as a pipe fitter. In bell-bottomed pants and a grey wool cap, Sunday costume of the Donets worker of his day, he was often seen around the taverns, downing yorsh and saying: "Beer's all right for the Germans, but vodka's the stuff for Russians...
While Tory John Diefenbaker shouted "Buccaneers!" and Trade Minister C. D. Howe roared "Who's going to stop us?", Canada's Liberals a year ago bulled legislation through Parliament for a pipeline to carry natural gas across the country from the Alberta fields. Though Trans-Canada Pipe Lines Ltd. was a private enterprise, the Liberal government generously agreed to build the Northern Ontario section of the line, which the promoters gloomily called "uneconomic," and even lent Trans-Canada $50 million when it claimed to be hard up. Only last week did the full measure of the big deal...
...Star. Two Moonwatch teams near Washington have already had live practice. At Springfield, Va. 20 observers arranged themselves after dark under an odd-looking "T" of iron pipe with dim lights glowing at the ends of its horizontal member. The T showed the meridian, and the observers trained their telescopes so that their overlapping fields covered a north-and-south slice of sky through which the satellite should pass...