Word: piped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dust-covered, unalphabetized books, and their romanticism goes wild. Visions of Bloomsbury circles and artistic Jamesian bookbinders flit through their minds. No doubt they imagine the booksellers themselves -- the tall, thin man with the distinguished-looking, white goatee, and the heavier-set, clean-shaven man with the ever-present pipe--as the central figures in a coterie of important literary Bostonians...
...much for the romantic image. In fact, Milton Starr (he's the one with the pipe--the other is his assistant, Ernest Morrell) is the epitome of the self-made businessman. He always refers to selling books as "the business...
...addition to its interest in the profits of British Petroleum, which is 48% owned by the crown. Norway will have to export the oil from its area, since the undersea terrain makes building a pipeline to Norway impossible. Two weeks ago, the Norwegian Parliament approved a proposal to pipe oil from its Ekofisk fields to Britain and gas to Germany. By 1980, sales of North Sea oil could be providing the equivalent of $100 annual income for every Norwegian. The Oslo government is trying to increase the take by insisting on a 50% interest in all drilling operations...
Calvin Coffey was working the day shift out of Walpole State Prison yesterday. 10:55 a.m.--Coffey was helping install a new pipe fixture at the lab construction site. The telephone tolled from the next room. Coffey raced to get it. "Pulp and paper lab, Coffey speaking...
...guess you'd have to say I'm in installation," Coffey said, putting down the flat rolled-steel iron pipe he had formerly been lugging around, and gingerly plopping himself down prone onto a pile of wood shavings...