Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That Red Soil. But lately Ed O'Neal has slowed down. At 72, his hands and his head shake with palsy. He has difficulty lighting his Dunhill pipe. Last week, at the Farm Bureau's 29th meeting in Chicago, Ed O'Neal finally stepped down from the $15,000-a-year office he had held since...
Britons quickly learned to know him as a pipe-smoking, stocky, imperturbable Average Man who might have served as model for Punch's famed John Bull. He and Lucy were strict Sabbatarians, would not even read Sunday papers. His radio chats, larded with folksy platitudes about "service" and "playing the game" kept him at No. 10 Downing Street...
...painkiller, amidone has performed brilliantly. It is used in smaller doses than morphine, does not produce morphine's pipe-dreamy effect, sometimes kills pain after morphine has failed...
...monster. But would he accept his freedom? It seemed doubtful. It would be too easy to lay boards across the tops of a billion sedans and start all over again with jet propulsion, foam rubber wheels and special lighters for the motorist's neon-trimmed opium pipe...
...slender line that floats behind in a graceful dropping curve. The tanker fires a kind of harpoon-gun, which shoots another line to tangle with the receiver's line. Clawlike devices on the two ends lock together. The receiver hauls in both lines. Next comes a fuel pipe filled with nitrogen gas to minimize danger of explosion. Then comes gasoline, flowing by gravity at 100 gallons a minute. The tanker can supply up to 2,000 gallons...