Word: piped
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...young hoodlums were in the rear and evidently following me. As I neared a small street intersection--they came on--one on the left--one on the right--& one in back--evidently to surround me. But--I quickened my pace and dangled my holster: I pulled out my trusty pipe in gun-like fashion. "Stop this moment--or I'll fire at you--I have a loaded gun in my hand...
...Suddenly, their talks were interrupted by a phone call from the Kremlin: Nikita Khrushchev would be happy to receive William E. Knox, president of Westinghouse International Co. Knox had not asked for the interview, so Khrushchev, as he often does, was obviously trying to use an American visitor to pipe some of his views into the U.S. This week Knox revealed what was said, and the account of the three-hour session once again showed Khrushchev as one of the world's more arresting conversationalists...
...Igor Cassini), who used to mention Gilbert frequently, and whose public relations firm had handled E. L. Bruce. Cassini lost at least $30,000 himself in Gilbert's crash and then committed the calumny of calling his oldtime pal "a crook." After a Park Avenue stroll with a pipe-puffing Gilbert last week, Cholly chronicled all. "Eddie said he 'couldn't let down' his parents, his wife and children, his friends and all those who believed in him. 'I also wanted to see if you and I were still friends,' he said, looking...
...When natural gas was discovered off the north coast of Japan's main island of Honshu, many engineers doubted that it would ever be possible to pipe it across the island's mountainous volcanic spine to fuel-hungry Tokyo. Last week 5-ft.-tall Shige Kawata, 75, president of the steelmaking Nippon Kokan company, watched the gas start to flow through a 208-mile pipeline that his firm built in less than a year and guarantees to be earthquake-proof. An avid sportsman who is president of the Japan Basketball Association and holds the fifth degree in judo...
...knowledge and experience to see him through. Plagued for years by physical disabilities-a brain concussion, a broken thigh bone, an operation for a tumor that left him partly paralyzed-he recently survived burns that kept him in the hospital for nearly a year. Klemperer had been smoking his pipe in bed, woke to find his bedclothes smoldering, reached for the nearest liquid on his bedside table. It happened to be highly flammable spirits of camphor...