Word: piped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Former Air Force Chief of Staff General Thomas D. White, now a Newsweek military columnist and occasional contributor to other publications, recently wrote: "I am profoundly apprehensive of the pipe-smoking, tree-full-of-owls type of so-called professional 'defense intellectuals' who have been brought into this nation's capital. I don't believe a lot of these often overconfident, sometimes arrogant, young professors, mathematicians and other theorists have sufficient worldliness or motivation to stand up to the kind of enemy we face...
...symbol, a well-knuckled Thumbs Up-the toiler's equivalent of the Tory V-for-Victory gesture-and the slogan: LET'S GO WITH LABOR. The Laborites devoted half of their first bold spread to a picture of Party Leader Harold Wilson-for once without a pipe-and used the rest of the space to explain the "changes the new Labor government intends to make." They ranged from a shake-up in industry ("too many directors sitting in board rooms because of their family background") to an expanded scientific program to "prevent our best brains from taking jobs...
...this week's Sport section, Pitcher Warren Spahn, a man of superb control, tries to describe how he throws to the outer edge of the plate, and says, "I couldn't throw one down the pipe if I tried.'' The enlivening speech of natural conversationalists, the alphabetical shorthand of bureaucrats, the foreign words that sometimes say it better, the new names and phrases that describe the latest art fad or music craze, all find their way into our pages. A sampler from this week's issue...
Next morning Cooper was back in his Faith 7 capsule. As he lay on his back, the ten-story-high launch assembly swayed gently. The thin skin of the Atlas popped and clinked with expansion and contraction. Vapor whistled with pitch-pipe tones through the liquid oxygen release valve. Gyros purred-and, to the astonishment of control-center monitors, Cooper's respiration rate dropped to twelve per minute. Astronaut Cooper apparently was taking a catnap...
...flurry of arms and legs that "makes the ball look as though it is coming right out of my uniform." And then there is his control. "Home plate is 17 inches wide," he says. "But I ignore the middle 12 inches. I couldn't throw one down the pipe if I tried...