Word: piped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...time was an apprentice pipefitter on the line. "The men watched their language when I was around," she admitted, "so I had to watch mine." At Prudhoe Bay, petite Kathleen Gotten, 26, was a warehouse checker. Among her duties: helping to get 17,000-lb. sections of pipe moving on rollers as they were being cleaned. The women on the pipeline, although their bedrooms are sometimes side by side with the men's, encountered few problems in coed living. "They're treated just like everyone else," said one electrician. "I walk down the halls in my shorts. If they...
Green tea was on the tables in front of the men. Mao sipped his as he talked; Ford stoked up his pipe. Mao dominated his side of the talk. The other Chinese said very little. Mao rested his head back against his chair and when he talked, he would roll it toward his interpreter and speak directly at her instead of at the Americans. She listened and watched his lips closely. His difficulty in forming words is apparently the result of strokes. Sometimes Miss Tang did not understand what Mao said. She would repeat the sentence and he would...
...week's end Ford stuffed his pipes and pipe cleaners, his Field & Stream tobacco and his important documents into his worn old brown briefcase with the red tag that says THE PRESIDENT. He finally shut off the endless flow of presidential paper, patted the family dog, and headed toward the Middle Kingdom, which according to legend lies somewhere between earth and heaven...
...smoked cigarettes for a while and even tried a pipe, disclosed Actress Rosemary Harris, but "I had never smoked cigars before." That is, not until she was cast as 19th century Novelist George Sand in the new public-television series Notorious Woman. Sand (née Aurore Dupin) not only indulged a taste for tobacco, but for men as well, including Composer Frédéric Chopin, Poet Alfred de Mussel and Novelist Prosper Merimee. "I don't have the incredible energy she had," said Harris, 48, suggesting that "a thyroid condition" might have accounted for Sand...
James Schlesinger was back in a little office last week, stuffing his pipe full of Sir Walter Raleigh, quoting Heraclitus ("Character is destiny"), pondering his singular journey through the high corridors of power and his sudden descent. He had for the moment somewhat the look of a trapped creature, with the low ceiling of the office at Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies pressing down...