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Word: piped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week, eight bombs exploded in the city, knocking out the electricity in a fifth of Havana, including the business district. Burning phosphorous sticks went into the mail drops at the central post office to burn the day's mail collection; another bomb burst a water pipe at an intersection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: The New Revolutionaries | 12/12/1960 | See Source »

...skylight. Once inside the apartment-the old ladies are out of town for the weekend-the intruders delicately drill a hole in the wall that stands between them and the jeweler's safe. Spfluroosh! A jet of water jumps out of the wall-they managed to hit a pipe. And so on to the climax, which comes in one of the grandest and goofiest sight gags since Stan Laurel looked into a bathroom mirror, saw a gorilla, decided that he must need a shave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 12, 1960 | 12/12/1960 | See Source »

Hiken titled his winning entry, "Is Pipe Smoking a Mystery to You?" Boyd won the second place prize of $100 with "Plato on Leavitt & Peirce, one of his more recent dialogues." Two third prizes of $50 each went to Deborah R. Pavan '61 and Robert Reardon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leavitt-Peirce Names Hiken Top Winner in Ad Contest | 12/6/1960 | See Source »

...Nussbaumer's ultimatum, the U.N. sent reinforcements that raised the U.N. guard at the Ghanaian embassy to 170 Tunisian soldiers. The Congo was represented by a handful of military police headed by busting Security Inspector Henri N'Gampo, which frequently retreated behind a hedge to stuff his pipe with bangi, a Congolese form of marijuana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGO: The Embassy Firefight | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

...idea we develop that is approved by the fire underwriters," he said. "The London Hilton would cost 10% to 15% more if we were building it in New York." The British accepted easier-to-install copper plumbing and approved a modern plumbing layout that eliminates 80% of the pipe. New York will not, because the plumbers' union objects. Any attempt to change a code brings a cry from labor unions and trade associations. The plumbers complained, and the Lead Industries Association threatened to cancel a convention in a Hilton hotel after Tabler publicly advocated eliminating lead pipe in bathroom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUILDING: Battle of the Codes | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

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