Word: piped
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...home before and after the Cowperthwaite construction. However, he says the team sent to assess post-construction damage ignored his tenants’ requests to photograph a crack that had appeared in one of his walls during construction. While Harvard did pay to repair a window and pipe that broke as the house settled, he says, they made no such offer for the crack.Annis says he received a letter on February 26 from Lucey asking that Annis’s lawyer meet with a lawyer for Harvard. MAKING IT PUBLICAnnis says he may still consider negotiating with the University?...
...gets up to leave. He tells me that the next time I have interviewees over for dinner, I should trick them by passing his house off as mine, maybe with some hired servants, smoking a pipe, pretending journalism is something I do as a lark, separate from my silver-mining interests...
...left government lost a decisive confidence vote, sealing its collapse. When two members of the National Alliance party popped bottles of spumante and waved slices of mortadella to mock Prodi - nicknamed "Mortadella" for his presumed resemblance to the pink sausage popular in his hometown of Bologna - the white-haired, pipe-smoking Senate President pounded his gavel and ordered Senate guards to immediately remove the victuals. "This isn't a tavern here!" he barked...
...office. He sketches all the misfits he encounters with anthropological and sartorial precision, colorfully and poetically noting the red tarboosh of a Tigrean guard; the "sublime crease" of a servant's "beautiful putty trousers"; and a Greek engineer's soiled celluloid collar, "yellow and clouded as a clay pipe...
Despite the palpable enthusiasm nationwide for Obama’s candidacy, there remains the lingering suspicion that it might all be a pipe dream. After all, it’s easy to talk about changing the political system on the campaign trail; it’s much more difficult to put it into practice in the harsh Washington world of backroom deals and partisan squabbles...