Word: piped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that there was no danger at the Tyler plant, for an appalling reason: "That place is so dusty none of the men work there long enough to get sick." Covering some of the same ground, Scott reports that Dr. R.T.R. DeTreville, president of the Industrial Health Foundation, visited a pipe-manufacturing plant near Pittsburgh, where two workers had been hospitalized after being exposed to epoxy resins. Asked by a British doctor working with him why the plant was not closed until the extent of the danger was assessed, DeTreville replied, "You can't do that...
Extra Space. A short (5 ft. 7½ in.), pipe-smoking Michigander of Dutch extraction, terHorst was taken off the city hall beat at his home-town Grand Rapids Press to cover Ford's first congressional campaign in 1948. The paper had endorsed Ford against the incumbent, and terHorst's assignment, as he tells it, was "being sure that the Ford story was well covered." Ford won by a 2-to-l margin, and the President now amiably refers to terHorst as a man who "connived to get me a little extra space in the Grand Rapids Press...
...ruptured pipe or a poorly designed pressure vessel" could cause the release over an area of 60 to 70 miles ten times the radiation that an American atomic bomb caused in Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945, Kendall said...
...since the election of Valêry Giscard d'Estaing, and even quietly participating in some of the group's projects, it still refuses to join. Though far from ironclad, the agreement indicates that unity among the world's main oil consumers is more than a pipe dream...
Later, during a 70-minute pipe-puffing press conference, Clerides fielded questions in flawless English and turned vague on only one essential subject. Makarios, the constitutional President, was welcome back, but Clerides added that the archbishop's immediate return "would be very unwise under the present conditions." When Makarios does return, or perhaps even before, Clerides said, the presidency would be "a question for the people of Cyprus to decide." He promised a quick election to facilitate their decision...