Word: piped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Goals. The man in charge of the U.S. military response to the new Russian challenge is James Rodney Schlesinger, 45, who was sworn in as Secretary of Defense last July 2. By profession an economist and military strategist, the tall, pipe-smoking Schlesinger demonstrated deft and tough skills in administration and problem solving in his previous jobs as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and director of the Central Intelligence Agency (see box page 16). At the Pentagon, he has set two goals for himself: 1) to overcome the legacy of the Viet Nam War, which has left the services...
...very late one Friday in the frightful winter of the year 19-. Holmes was filling his pipe with the noxious tobacco he kept in a slipper upon the mantel. I sat by the gasogene, trying to ignore the chill worrying my old Jezail bullet wound. It was not a very keen period for the world's first consulting detective; like all Englishmen, he only worked a three-day week. We could get little fuel, and warmed ourselves by burning pictures of coal from newsmagazine accounts of the miners' strike. Suddenly there came peremptory knocking at the door...
...ought to be -tall, broad-shouldered, his language and his clothes tailored with equally elegant understatement. But Bohlen, who was reared in Aiken, S.C., and Ipswich, Mass., as the son of a modestly wealthy family, was also an engagingly informal man who propped his feet on his desk, spilled pipe tobacco on carpets, and organized late-night poker parties...
...WIVES OF HENRY VIII (A & M). Using everything from synthesizers to pipe organs, England's Rick Wakeman has produced a provocative rock LP (not a score from the movie or TV series of the same name...
This time Hickey has changed. He is off the booze and wants to save the in mates of the cafe with a gospel of dis illusionment. They are to test their pipe dreams in the outer world and come to uncompromising terms with themselves...