Word: piped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...feet of concrete into a vault containing about 1,000 safe-deposit boxes in Lloyds Bank at 185 Baker Street. It was a case similar to the episode in which Holmes captured two tunneling bank crooks in A. Conan Doyle's The Red-Headed League -"a three-pipe problem," as Dr. Watson would have called it. But although policemen could actually hear the real-life heist taking place over a ham operator's receiver, they took nearly 36 hours to locate the scene of the crime. By then, the thieves had made off with at least...
...yeah, he's the well-educated candidate." DiCara can pull it off because no one would ever think of him as a candidate from Harvard. The voters of Boston can recognize him on sight as one of them: short, stocky, hook-nosed, balding, he resembles not at all the pipe-smoking, tweedy grandees like McGeorge Bundy who have tried for City Council with such disastrous results. Added to his appearance, there are his credentials: Robert F. Kennedy Action Corps, Cedar Grove Civic Association, Boston Junior Chamber of Commerce, Catholic Youth Organization, Knights of Columbus, St. Gregory's Holy Name Society...
...yeah he's the well-educated candidate.'" DiCara can pull it off because no one would ever think of him as a candidate from Harvard. The voters of Boston can recognize him on sight as one of them: short, stocky, hook-nosed, balding, he resembles not at all the pipe-smoking, tweedy grandees like McGeorge Bundy who have tired for City Council with such disastrous results. Added to his appearance, there are his credentials: Robert F. Kennedy Action Corps, Cedar Grove Civic Association, Boston Junior Chamber of Commerce, Catholic Youth Organization, Knights of Columbus, St. Gregory's Holy Name Society...
...association's account, the cow was not the culprit. The guilty party was a one-legged neighbor of Mrs. O'Leary, Dennis ("Peg Leg") Sullivan, who went to the O'Leary barn for a nightcap, lit his pipe and ignited the hay. As he tried to flee, his peg leg stuck in a floor crack. He discarded it and hobbled to safety by clinging...
...good will could evaporate if the U.S. pursues the search for compensation for nationalized U.S. companies to the point of economic reprisals. History furnishes examples of how such policies can fail. In 1938, Mexico expropriated American oil companies, which retaliated with an attempt to prevent the Mexicans from buying pipe or selling oil abroad. Today Mexico celebrates the expropriation as a day of national emancipation, an event that is now largely symbolic. The U.S. and Mexico have long since resolved their differences. In view of the current wave of Mexican-style expropriations, U.S. relations with the rest of Latin America...