Word: piped
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many another 33-year-old, it was carried out. Leaving his new, young wife behind, Catlin set out for the territory beyond the Mississippi. For six years he traveled the farthest reaches of the frontier, where a white man had about equal chances of being offered a peace pipe or getting an arrow through his throat...
...typecast for the role of European professor: hair askew, glasses perched precariously on nose, rumpled suit flecked with bits of tobacco from an omnipresent pipe. At the University of Basel, where he taught for 27 years, students adored him. But amiable Karl Barth was anything but indulgent when he talked of man's relationship with...
...play's biggest role, Reporter Hildy Johnson, David Garrison is brash, self-possessed, life-of-the-party, winning and entirely wrong. Hildy is nearing middle age. He sees one last chance to break free, give up the tabloid follies of youth and settle down with wife, pipe, slippers and mother-in-law. Garrison's Hildy instead sees endless tomorrows. The girl he loves enough to leave the Examiner for, moreover, ought to be so enticing as to make any man question his values. At Santa Fe she comes across as a drip...
...resorting to freebasing. After dissolving a substantial quantity of coke in an alkaline (basic) solution, they boil the brew until a whitish lump, or freebase, is left. The lump can be purified further by washing it in a strong solvent. Then it is smoked, often in a water pipe. That way a highly concentrated dose is absorbed into the blood even faster via the lungs than through the nasal membranes...
...exhibition sometimes argues with its own thesis: often the subject must have selected a likeness to amuse a friend or cloud the public image. William Faulkner, who liked to characterize himself as a back-country farmer, chose a gelatinous, Hollywood-issue publicity shot, with only his pipe in sharp focus, to give to the woman who would become his mistress. The message Faulkner intended to convey with the photo-apparently taken during one of his scriptwriting stints-is as blurred as his visage...