Word: piped
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...Everybody's involved," says A.P. Tilton. He should know. Tilton was town auditor for a decade, and has been a water commissioner and a selectman since 1961. Indeed, every resident either works for town hall or is related to somebody who does. Under such circumstances, getting a sewer pipe fixed or a pothole filled should be no problem...
...later, in New York, three Black transit workers stopped their car in the white neighborhood of Gravesend to get a midnight snack on the way home from work. A gang of white men attacked them; Dennis Dixon fled, and Donald Cooper escaped with the help of a piece of pipe. Their friend and co-worker, William Turks, whose arm was in a cast, was not so lucky. The whites dragged him from the car, and killed him with what was officially described as "overlapping blows to the head by a blunt object like a stick or rod, or even...
...response to another incident Tuesday, in which the same union officials went into an area closed to the public to take photographs of several holes in pipe lining releasing what they believed to be asbestos dust while attending to an unrelated union business matter. Powers barred all Local 26 officials from the University campus without his prior permission and an official Harvard escort...
University officials said yesterday that samples of exposed pipe insulation take from food service kitchens contain asbestos. Many scientists have linked long-term exposure to asbestos with certain types of cancer...
Diberardinis said that eve in that pipe lining was covering asbestos, such small holes would probable not cause a health hazard. "My guess would be no, but it would have to be looked at," he said...