Word: piped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...line party discipline, to organized labor. Gone were the tightlipped, gravel-voiced party barons from the tiers of the New Jersey, New York and Illinois delegations. Gone were the trappings that moved Will Rogers to describe conventions as "the Fourth of July of American politics." One waited for the pipe organ to sound, for the delegates to pour into the aisles, for state banners held aloft to parade the hall...
...Thus the anti-McGovernites could not raise their point of order; they had won a battle but lost the war. There was now no way to stop McGovern on California. Said Hart: "It was one of those times when politics is really fun. We played South Carolina like a pipe organ...
...Shankill district is a Protestant Bogside, barricaded and bellicose. Just off the Shankill Road, past a checkpoint of steel pipe driven into the pavement, is the headquarters of C Company, Ulster Defense Association. ¶Company patrols, some riding Land Rovers, mount round-the-clock guard over the area's narrow back streets. From C Company headquarters, a two-way radio network keeps the patrols in contact, while a clandestine broadcasting station-named Radio Free Nick, for nearby Nixon Street-keeps up local residents' morale with pop-record requests and Orange marching songs. ¶Company is one of eleven...
...most striking finding was the range of hash usage: most of the men smoked it, usually in a pipe, at a rate equivalent to the consumption of three or four reefers a day, one to three times a week. They achieved a marijuana high and suffered nothing worse than a "hash throat," with no obvious mental aftereffects. More than 100 others smoked from 2 oz. to 20 oz. a month, the equivalent of 500 to 5,000 marijuana cigarettes. These heavy users, say the doctors in the Archives of General Psychiatry, were in a "chronic intoxicated state marked by apathy...
...sandals I am not worthy to stoop down and untie," Taylor makes the allusion more straightforward: "I am not even worthy to be his slave." In the Book of Daniel, when Nebuchadnezzar makes a gold image and orders people to worship it when they hear the sounds of "horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp," Taylor offers instead a touch of Sousa: "When the band strikes up." Despite such lapses, Taylor's Bible is easy to read and remarkably understandable...