Word: piped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...human can stand. The dose apparently reduced by 40% the number of wasps that developed success fully into adults. Of the two kinds of wasps that built nests among the instruments, Shinn noticed that only the yellow-and-black daubers used radioactive mud. The nests of the closely related pipe-organ daubers were always as free of radioactivity as if nuclear phys ics had never come to Tennessee. How could the wasps tell the difference...
Shinn does not yet have the answer, but he is running elaborate tests to find out. It may be that the cautious pipe-organ wasps are repelled by the faint odor of ozone and other gases that rise from radioactive mud. More fascinating is the possibility that among the wasps of Oak Ridge, which have been exposed to radioactive wastes for a longer period than any others, the pipe-organ daub ers may have evolved a special sense that detects radioactivity and enables them to build nests that will not be lethal to their sensitive young...
...Yard. Most of the pipe network, whose smaller spurs link towns and even plants, is owned either by consortiums of companies or by eight independent transmission companies, led by Houston's Tennessee Gas Transmission Co. So much pipe has been emboweled about the petrochemical suburbs of Houston that the area is called "the Spaghetti Bowl." Near Harrisburg, Pa., five different pipelines parallel one another through the Allegheny Mountains. Pacific Gas & Electric's 36-in., 1,400-mile "Big Yard" carries 600 million cu. ft. of Canadian natural gas daily to 34 California counties and to Montana, Idaho, Washington...
When all the walls hung with shreds of pipe and wire...
...Neill canon, the lines of The Emperor Jones do not always read well; but, again as elsewhere, a really fine player can make them convincing. Here, James Earl Jones is better than fine; he is nothing short of magnificent as he moves, drawing on his majestic pipe-organ of a voice and his resonant belly-laugh, from bluster and swagger through anxiety and fright to exhaustion and eclipse. (The role, by the way, bears fruitful comparison with that of Macbeth...