Word: piped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard Police arrested a man swinging a 42-inch long pipe in the Law School's Harkness Common Thursday afternoon...
...doctor that "I'll be able to live out any sentence I might receive." That could prove difficult. The charges carry a maximum prison term of 265 years, as well as $74,000 in fines and forfeiture of all ill-gotten gains. Among them: a $200,000 yacht named Pipe Dreams that, prosecutors say, Edwards secretly bought for his son Stephen. Edwards conceded that he would have to resign if convicted. Said he: "I will plummet instantly from an enviable life to a miserable existence." And the good times will roll no more...
Minutes later at the Dorset Hotel, several blocks northwest, CBS Executive Vice President Van Gordon Sauter arrived for his own press conference, pipe in mouth and bow tie flopping, to tell a similar number of reporters and photographers that the network also claimed victory. CBS had spent several million dollars defending itself, conducted an internal investigation that uncovered substantial violations of its own procedures, and endured widespread critical judgment that its treatment of Westmoreland had been one- sided. But Sauter asserted that the Jan. 23, 1982, documentary, The Uncounted Enemy: A Vietnam Deception, had been vindicated. Said he: "Nothing...
...David Stockman had been "blowing his cool" in painfully candid testimony to Congress about military pensions and loans to farmers and college students. Earlier, White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan had called in Stockman to tell him that his gibes were upsetting the President and advised him to pipe down. The Budget Director obediently offered only relatively bland testimony last week, but that did not quiet his critics. When he was briefly hospitalized after feeling faint at a dinner party, a cruel gag promptly circulated on Capitol Hill that he had actually undergone a transplant to give...
Outside the White House last week, construction workers toiled in the chill weather to erect a reviewing booth and grandstand for the Inaugural parade, one of the first events of Ronald Reagan's second term. The laying of each plank and pipe was dictated by blueprints...