Word: piped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nervously pulling at his pipe, the Duke of Windsor fidgeted on the first tee of a Cuban golf course, was photographed just before he smacked out a drive in the opening round of the four-ball amateur invitation tournament at the Havana Biltmore Yacht and Country Club...
...field roared into the last hour, only 28 cars were left. A Cunningham-owned Ferrari was out with a bad oil line; Cunningham's Cunningham drove up for a pit stop, and when water was poured into the radiator, it came out the exhaust pipe: the engine had blown a gasket. Cunningham looked at the steaming water from the exhaust and walked away, laughing. ("What else can you do but laugh when that happens...
...huge, bay-windowed Cairo office, President-Premier Mohammed Naguib last week puffed his pipe and busied himself with an agreeable task. He set out various photos of himself, cocked his head at them, then, with the help of curio dealers, selected appropriate silver frames. He was going to Khartoum in a few days as Egypt's delegate to the first session of the Sudan Parliament; the pictures would be gifts for his hosts. At 53, the native son was returning to his birthplace...
...anti-Farouk uprising, had picked the bluff, respected, thrice-wounded soldier. The choice was happy: the nation cried "Yahish [long live] Mohammed Naguib," and flocked to him, holding out its centuries-old wounds. Naguib looked as a good father should−kindly, wise, genial. He smoked a pipe; he spoke softly and slowly; he waved aside guards and let the lowly approach. When they tried to kiss his hands, he would raise up the humble and buss them on the cheeks. He was honest and looked it, and Egyptians who had felt leaderless and betrayed for generations came...
...opposes Tamayo's work because it does not reflect the Marxist ideology which Communist Siqueiros insists is part of the Mexican heritage. Tamayo has also put some personal feeling−and a touch of his new humor−into Inexpert Smoker, which portrays a head gripping a pipe and surrounded with smoke, ashes and dizziness. Several years ago, Tamayo's wife bought him a pipe in London; he likes the feel of a pipe, but much smoking makes him turn green-sick...