Word: piped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...monkey wrench is not a pipe-working tool because the inside of its jaws are smooth, and it cannot grip pipe. A Stillson wrench has the serrated jaws and toggle action needed to grip pipe...
Jackson also had a long-range reason for backing away from Nixon's seductive offers: he has an eye cocked on the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination. His vision is not wholly the pipe dream it may appear. The Democrats are acutely interested in big winners, and Jackson is surely that. Only 58, he has served 30 years in Congress, 18 of them in the Senate. In the last election, Washington, clearly a two-party state, returned him to Capitol Hill with a staggering 83.9% of the vote. As chairman of the Interior and Insular Affairs Committee, he has gained...
...genuine freak, but he is a pleasant curmudgeon. During the time we rented from him over the Billings and Stover store, we thought that he'd go mad with us hairy freaks running all over the building. But he remained as pleasant as he could, and when a broken pipe in the wall doused our office, he gave us a month's free rent to make...
...injury is with the crew. Two months ago, about 100 miles away on the gulf, a fiery blowout on one platform killed six men and destroyed 20 operating wells. Several veteran roustabouts have fingers missing from accidents. Last September, a roustabout was killed when a 600-lb. section of pipe fell and crushed his skull...
Testifying before the congressional Joint Economic Committee, Burns was wreathed in his customary cloud of pipe smoke, but seemed somewhat less Delphic than usual. He pledged that the Federal Reserve would provide enough money and credit for "healthy economic expansion," but added that the board was already being "quite generous" in supplying funds. "The banks are flooded with money," he said. "What we have is not a shortage of money but a shortage of confidence [among borrowers]." Expanding the money supply at an annual rate above 5% to 6% for any long period, Burns said, intensifies inflationary pressures. Last year...