Word: piped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...flash flood also turned nearby Pipe Creek into a torrent, damaging 50 buildings. Half of one house was found lodged in a bridge, 20 ft. above the receding water. As a dazed man looked for his home, a searcher observed, "He doesn't know his family is dead." No one was certain how many of the 52 people listed as missing might have survived. But by week's end 18 bodies had been found...
...legacies of the two events are still entwined. Three decades after the sit-ins, some people, black and white, wonder if desegregation has failed. Others, of both races, contend that integration has always been a pipe dream. Still others favor a return to separate societies. Observes Greensboro school superintendent John A. Eberhart, who is white: "The question is, are we going to move apart or are we going to move together...
...early spring of this year. Mark's Egyptian fiancee mailed him a package of his favorite tobacco, ending a three-month attempt at quitting his sheesha. A sheesha is an elaborate water pipe, with a glass bowl base, topped by brass fittings called 'alb al-sheesha, or "heart of the sheesha." "Above this fans out a copper dish that serves to catch any coals or ash falling from the haggar or "stone." Smoke is drawn through the lay (hose) which is connected to the 'alb al-sheesha...
With the U.S. deluged by drugs, the accessory trade has become a multibillion-dollar industry. The profits are high -- a crack pipe that costs 3 cents to produce can retail for $8 -- and the risks of jail are low. Though a 1986 federal statute makes it a felony to import, export or conduct interstate trade in paraphernalia, no federal law bans its manufacture. Moreover, while all states except Alaska have passed laws to control the sale of paraphernalia, the crime is typically a loosely enforced misdemeanor. "These guys simply do not face an equivalent risk for the harm that they...
...then it was too late. The accordion proliferated like the South American killer bee, joining the family of base instruments that includes the comb and tissue paper, the bagpipe and the exhaust pipe. Today an estimated 75,000 accordionists can be observed running amuck across the U.S., competing in squeeze-offs. In self-defense, they are banded together in associations presided over by the likes of people named Big Lou. It would not surprise anyone to learn that a certain Big George laces himself into the accordion harness and knocks out a couple of choruses of Boola Boola when...