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Word: piped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...issue was bluntly stated. "The Russians give us threats and the Americans give us money. If you were Premier, which would you take?" asked amiable, water-pipe-smoking Premier Sami Solh. The opposition, headed by former Premier Abdullah el Yafi, heavily attacked Solh's pro-Western policies, and was backed by Egypt and Syria in efforts ranging from plain money (not so plentiful as it used to be) to attempted riots. The U.S., making little effort to disguise its support for Solh, just a day before elections flew in four planeloads of jeeps and recoilless rifles as the first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEBANON: Question of Balance | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

...those who smoke only cigars the rate goes up 22%, and for pipe smokers only 12%. Mixed smokers, e.g., pipe and cigarettes, have intermediate rates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Smoking & Health | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

Heart & Artery Disease. Deaths attributed to disease of the coronary arteries went up step-fashion according to the amount smoked: less than half a pack a day, up 29%; half a pack to a pack, up 89%; one to two packs, up 115%; two packs or more, up 141%. (Pipe smokers' rates were up only 3%; cigar smokers' rates up 28%.) Cigarette smokers' death rate from strokes was 30% higher than among nonsmokers; from general arteriosclerosis, 46% higher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Smoking & Health | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

...come of age: the 'Cliffe was about to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary. The Edgeworth Tobacco Company, realizing that this attitude was indicative of national womanhood, kept cheering up Harvard men by telling them that, no matter what else the women had taken away, they could take away his pipe. "She'll never smoke a pipe," the company crowed in countless CRIMSON ads; that item is "one pet diversion our little friends keep their fingers...

Author: By Richard N. Levy, | Title: Class of '32: First Two Years | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

Hank's Belond, named for a sponsor, Exhaust-Pipe Maker Sandy Belond, was one of the lightest and lowest cars in the race. George Salih, the California engineer who designed the car, was a conformist only in his choice of engine. (He used the same four-cylinder Meyer-Drake Offenhauser that powered every car in the race except the two V-8 Novi Specials.) Under the Belond's yellow skin, the time-tested Offy engine was laid on its side. In its unusual mount, the Offy not only ran cooler, it gave the car a sleek, slanted profile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sweet & Low | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

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