Word: piped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wilson's strong suit has been his shrewd tactical sense-that of a cunning strategist who knew how to pick his way through, as he once put it, "political traps and minefields." Always a much more complex man than his natural ebullience and everpresent pipe suggest, he provides few glimpses of his inner self and has no close political cronies. At 58, his tastes, like his upbringing as the son of a Yorkshire industrial chemist, are unpretentious: detective stories, raspberries, a nip of brandy. Each summer, he spends three weeks in his cottage on the desolate Scilly Isles (where...
...children's photos on top of the television. Sewing machines work manually, though electricity is available. Instant coffee sits on top of a wood-burning stove. Battered wooden rockers sway next to plastic kitchen chairs. Telephone wires stretch above glassless windows. Near the electricity meter the old fashioned stove-pipe vent perches like...
From there, the complexities mount. Purchasing agents barter not only for goods that their own companies need, but also for materials that their suppliers need, or they sometimes buy for cash merchandise that they then barter with suppliers. For instance, Monogram Industries is buying steel pipe that it does not use itself but trades for phenol, which it badly needs in order to make insulating materials...
...Tories' 12,000-word manifesto "Firm Action for a Fair Britain." Across the square, Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson, in a rival press conference, tartly retitled the Tory manifesto "Infirm and Unfair." Slimmer than during his two terms as Prime Minister and reflectively puffing on a pipe, Wilson lashed out 'against inflation: eggs up 99% since 1970, cheese 78%, chicken 69% and bread will rise to just half a penny less than the celebrated "three-shilling loaf that Heath in 1970 had said would be the inevitable result if Labor were returned to power...
...suit, and sauntered over to Locke-Ober's Café for his favorite finnan haddie dinner. He was aspishly relieved that a local boy should have won such notice: "My God, what if I hadn't made the list? Men have been known to take the gas pipe with less provocation...