Word: piped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Still no U.S. response. At the White House and Pentagon, officials wondered what Kelso was waiting for. Poindexter, however, was calm. He puffed away at his pipe, hardly saying a word. "Poindexter did not call the fleet commander even once during the entire crisis," said one White House staffer. "That would only have increased the burden and would have caused more tension." Poindexter speculated that Kelso would launch his counterattack at night. At the White House, Don Regan was edgy. He called Weinberger and Crowe to come over and explain the delay. Their response was the same as Poindexter...
...language laboratory in the basement of Boylston Hall was closed to students yesterday after a pipe burst and flooded the area...
Engineers began working on the damaged pipe at about 2:30 p.m. yesterday afternoon and managed to turn off the valve before further damage occured. Members of custodial services worked all night trying to dry the soaked carpeting...
Members of the maintenance crew said that the damaged pipe, part of a heating unit, would not affect other rooms in Boylston Hall. They added that the laboratory would probably be open to students today...
...that moment, Harris, the maintenance director, was figuring out how he could get by without a $900 expansion joint by jury-rigging a small loop in a pipe...