Word: piped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contest with the Big Green opened slowly, but after the two teams traded early goals, and Crimson netminder Mike Bergmann out of position, a Dartmouth attacker broke into the zone for what seemed a sure goal. His shot, however, hit the base of the left pipe, and what should have been a 2-1 lead for the visitors soon turned into a 2-1 Harvard advantage when Pujols scored the first of his four goals just seconds later...
Recognizing her skills as well as her birthday, her home state of Mississippi declared a Eudora Welty Day. In Jackson, the capital and her home town, Millsaps College tossed a three-day "Southern literary festival" honoring the occasion. The affair drew pipe-smoking academics, fellow successful novelists and short-story writers, worshipful young writers-to-be, men who have had intimate relationships with plows, veiny-handed country women, root pullers-friends...
...last sound she ever heard was a slight whoosh of air as a lead pipe descended on the back of her skull...
...trouble begins at a Philadelphia construction site when a young bricklayer and speed freak named Leon Hubbard waves a straight razor under a co-worker's chin. The would-be victim, Lucien Edwards Jr., 69, is black, dignified and not to be trifled with: he bashes a metal pipe into the back of Leon's head. The foreman, Coleman Peets, sees this fatal act as providential. He has been worrying for days about how to get rid of the punk without killing him himself. The police arrive and accept with little reluctance Peets' description of an accidental...
...final distinctive features of the launch pad are three massive flame ducts, each 50 ft. high and 70 ft. wide, that will vent the tremendous energy released during lift-offs. Seven seconds before takeoff, an underground pipe 10 ft. in diameter will flood the ducts in less than 30 seconds with about half a million gallons of water. The water will be stored in two tanks. The 6,000° F heat produced by the shuttle will be tamed by the liquid, generating huge billows of steam from the ducts during and after the launch. At Cape Canaveral, the vents...