Word: piped
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Saddam is already on the verge of winning an important U.N. concession: a partial reopening of Iraq's oil pipeline through Turkey. Periodically Baghdad will be allowed to "flush" the pipeline of old oil -- which the Turks claim is corroding the pipe -- and fill it with fresh oil. Each flush will yield about 12 million bbl. of marketable oil, which would net Iraq some $50 million, and there could be several such operations every year...
Could any other tabloid newspaperman have been found on a New York City sidewalk in the middle of the afternoon, puffing a pipe and surveying the passing scene while listening to the music of Henry Purcell? It was Monday, the one working day he wasn't on deadline, and Murray Kempton was happy to slip off the earphones of his portable CD player and muse about Rebellions, Perversities and Main Events (Times Books; 570 pages; $27.50), a new collection of his writings...
Supposedly unbreakable locks are no defense for cyclists: thieves use a small metal pipe to break the Kryptonite U-Lock. Robbers also spray locks with Frion to freeze the metal and then smash them with a hammer...
...great success of the group ended violently when a March 6, 1970 explosion killed members of its final permutation, the Weather Underground, who were assembling pipe bombs in a Greenwich Village townhouse...
...famed 'approaches to knowledge' is eithera. a smokescreen: b. a myth; or c. a pipe dreamthat the Faculty has," he says...