Word: piped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...look like a conspirator. Appointed to the staff college, he ran a cribbing service for those who wanted to pass examinations for staff jobs. Says he: "They were obligated to us." Looking around for a nominal leader who would inspire respect, he found Mohammed Naguib, a pipe-smoking colonel of bluff honesty. Tacit support was given by the Moslem Brotherhood when Nasser promised the Mufti of Jerusalem that he would help out with the Arab defense of Palestine...
...manmade lightning. ¶A lathe with a mechanical brain, which computes the correct cutting speed for each job. Its makers, Monarch Machine Tool Co. of Sidney, Ohio, estimate that the brain alone can increase production 25% ¶A Cleveland Tapping Machine Co device that cuts threads on iron pipe fittings at the rate of 85 feet a minute, producing 1,480 fittings an hour, compared to the previous standard of 350 an hour...
...took Stapp a few months of spectacular scrounging and "moonlight requisitioning" to put together the kind of test setup he required. The lab needed water, so he "borrowed" 4,400 ft. of pipe, talked some civilian workers into doing the necessary welding, and paid them off with free medical care for their families. (Throughout his four busy years at Edwards, Stapp found time to give medical care to servicemen's families and civilian workers, often made more than half a dozen night calls, never accepted a cent from what he called "my curbstone clinic...
...Murchison was asked last March what he considered the major achievement of his life, he replied: "I'm still trying to accomplish it in this Canadian pipeline, which I am trying to consummate to a final conclusion successfully." Last week Murchison's major achievement moved a long pipe length closer to successful consummation...
Five Hundred Prayers. Across the Tiber, the fourth river, Johnston recorded the welcome of liberated Rome. Pope Pius gave an audience to the Allied press, but what impressed Johnston were the shouts of the cameramen: "Hold it, Pope, we gotcha ..." A Scottish pipe band marched into St. Peter's Square, bent-in the words of the pipe major-on "gieing Popie a blaw." The Pope was delighted, says Orangeman Johnston, but "all the same, they might have picked on a more suitable tune than Lillibulero...