Word: piped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Their only hope lies in alcoholic pipe-dreams. Their fondest desire is a visit from Hickey, a gladhanding traveling salesman who conjures inexplicable laughter out of the barflies' brimming cups with the tale of how his lonely wife is finding sexual solace with an iceman...
...girls dress up in their veils anyway and say a few more "God willing's" than usual. The men--and maybe the rich Senora from the nearby ranch--stand about in a circle and discuss the work on the road or the unlikely prospect of raising sufficient funds to pipe water into the town. Don Leonardo is their selected leader--with his tall stature, good looks, blue eyes, eloquence, and strong stance...
...Doig is tall and skinny and if I remember correctly he has a mole somewhere on his long face. He is of Scottish descent and he laughs loud and deep at things that are only vaguely funny. He smokes a pipe all day long; if you catch him at any time after eleven o'clock in the morning you will find that he stinks from the odor of tobacco...
When a Communist-led mob attacked the car of Richard Nixon in Caracas in 1958, smashing its windows and battering its doors and roof with rocks and lengths of pipe, one of the dozen Secret Service agents who risked his life to save the then Vice President was an erect, athletic man named H. Stuart Knight. Last week President Nixon installed Knight, 52, as head of Secret Service, a job that will require courage and initiative of another sort. Knight's job will be to re-establish the reputation of the 1,230-agent organization, which has been badly...
...Senate and House whizzed through a long-delayed bill, which the President signed, to lay a pipeline across 789 miles of tundra, mountains and rivers between Alaska's North Slope oilfields and the warm-water port of Valdez. The pipe will pump some 2,000,000 bbl. per day-about 11 % of the nation's current needs. Though the line will be constructed on a hurry-up basis at a cost of $4.5 billion, it will still not be in operation until 1977, if then. In taking the action, Congress brushed aside longstanding objections by environmentalists, who argue...