Word: piped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Peabody Terrace has been hit three times within the past month by burglars using pipe wrenches to pry open apartment doors...
Harvard police patrolling the Peabody Terrace area Tuesday afternoon caught two men with a pipe wrench and later found an estimated $5000 in stolen goods that were stored inside their car parked on Putnam Ave., Captain Jeffrey S. Kahn said yesterday...
...using light to convey information far predates the new fiber-optics technology demonstrated so dramatically by AT&T. Primitive man sent signals by building fires or waving torches; ships still use shuttered signal lamps to flash messages to each other. Proof that light could be sent along a curved "pipe"-like electricity flowing through a wire-was provided by British Physicist John Tyndall in 1870. He showed that light shining down on a tank of water could be carried by a stream pouring from a hole in the side of the tank to illuminate the spot on which the stream...
While the histrionics of Mr. Curry et. al. were glorified to the point of making it appear the game was an intramural scrimmage, the fact remains that Eliot missed 15 foul shots. It's true we took the pipe, but to imply we were outclassed...well, discuss it with a Leverett player...
...easily the Senate's coolest elder statesman. Genial, pipe-smoking Democrat Mike Mansfield, Montana Senator since 1953 and his party's majority leader since 1961, can be sharp-tongued when he needs to be. But in 15 years of Senate floor leadership - the longest tenure of any floor leader in the history of the upper chamber - he is legendary for almost never having lost his temper. Other majority leaders, like Mansfield's predecessor, Lyndon Johnson, bullied, threatened and arm-twist ed recalcitrant colleagues. The Montanan soothed, persuaded with calm reason and took the quiet...