Word: piped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just fantastic to see those X-rays coming down the pipe," he adds...
...body of a standard Capri, stripped the drive train, rear axle and motor and added a Pinto transmission, a Mustang rear end and a Perkins diesel engine. The key change was putting on a turbocharger. This reroutes hot exhaust gases (which would normally escape from the tail pipe) to a paddle-wheel turbine that compresses the engine's air-fuel mixture and gives the motor a sudden burst of power...
...lack cell walls and observing how they interact with the body's immune system. He also reads voraciously, particularly poetry, and is teaching himself Greek so that he can read Homer in the original. The doctor's spare time is not wasted in worry; he smokes a pipe constantly, enjoys a drink before dinner, eats whatever he likes and refuses to undergo annual checkups...
...Oceanographic Institution, cruised at depths of nearly two miles in the Pacific 200 miles northeast of the Galapagos Islands, the vessel's bright strobe lights caught a curious sight: a cluster of vertical tubes growing in rocky crevices of this volcanically active region of the sea floor. Each pipe housed a pinkish worm with an elegant, red, feathery plume. Alvin's robot-like arms grappled up samples, and still more on a return visit earlier this year. Amazingly, some were giant worms, ranging up to 8½ ft. in length...
Despite Harvard's manifest riding and clearing superiority, hard luck (Gordie Nelson hit the post three times to give him a total of seven pipe shots in two games) and Eli perseverance combined to shut out the Crimson in the third period, while Yale crept back to a slight 10-7 deficit...