Word: piped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back in Newport Harbor, Skipper Sturrock headed for Fair Oaks, a sprawling, 27-room mansion that Sir Frank Packer has leased for the summer. Pipe clenched firmly in his teeth, Packer listened silently to Sturrock's account of Gretel's race with Vim. "She may do," Sir Frank nodded. "She may do, after...
...harsh colonial rule simmering for 17 months. Convinced by their witch doctors that Portuguese bullets would turn to water, and smeared with white paste that they thought would make them invisible, the rebels last year began an orgy of terror. Armed with machetes and crude rifles made from pipe, old cans and rubber bands, they mutilated their victims because of the native belief that mutilation prevents a body from going to heaven; men's penises were chopped off and nailed to trees, women were impaled on sticks. One coffee plantation owner was forced to watch while his dead wife...
...held fairly steady for the past four years, and have actually dropped since January. Manufacturers of some machinery, chemicals, drugs, primary metals, and plumbing fixtures have recently cut their prices as much as 5%. Steelmakers, who tried last April to raise prices, now are quietly offering discounts on line pipe (off 5%), upholstery-spring wire (8%), stainless steel sheets (10%), reinforcing bars (10% to 20%). Not all wholesale cuts trickle down to the consumer, but many do, especially in such hotly competitive sectors as appliances and gasoline. In Detroit the betting is that the new 1963 cars will not carry...
...Tricks & Gambols." The provocation consisted mainly of reminding Khrushchev that his professed willingness to smoke the peace pipe was being received with increasing skepticism by even those who do not sit at Western powwows. As Khrushchev should have known, even Hiawatha discovered the need for controls over war clubs...
Relax and Enjoy. Studious and methodical, Rollins set out to learn the pro game by the numbers, jotting down everything-tips from players and coaches, comments on opposing pitchers, acid reminders of his weaknesses. Fellow players considered him something of a grind; he smoked a pipe, drank only beer, rarely went to the movies, read history books. But in his first year, he batted .341 in the minors, and last year he clipped off .294 in 13 games, after being called up to the parent club...