Word: piped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...latter clogs blood vessels by combining with oxygen to form a substance that sets off alarms in the immune system. White blood cells rush to attack it, and the whole mess forms into sticky globs called plaques that cling to vessel walls like mineral deposits in a water pipe. When these deposits break off and blood clots around them, the flow can shut off entirely, leading to heart attack or stroke...
Bandwidth is the rate at which data is transferred across the Internet. It is analogous to the flow of water through a pipe. The more sophisticated the "pipe," the greater the speed...
However, on some occasions the tunnels can still be dangerous. Last Monday, a steam pipe-gasket leak in the Yard flooded the tunnels in that area with steam and short-circuited the lights, leaving tunnels from the Science Center to Widener Library completely blacked...
...Verve Pipe 2. Mr. Serv-on 3. Tool 4. Le Click 5. Ginuwine 6. Prodigy 7. MindSpring 8. Infoasis 9. Drizzle 10. Panix...
...with tribal chieftains, then returned home and began boiling pots of water and herbs in his kitchen. He tried one herb combination after another, going cold turkey while seeking a remedy. His withdrawal symptoms were "like torture," he recalls, and time after time he went back to his opium pipe for relief...