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Word: pipeful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Middle Way. Czechoslovakia's political arena is limited to four parties: 1) the Communists, led by stout, pipe-smoking Deputy Prime Minister Klement Gottwald, 48, an exile in Moscow between 1939 and 1945; 2) the Social Democrats, led by mousy, opportunistic Prime Minister Fierlinger, 54; 3) the Socialists, led by Dr. Benes; and 4) the People's (Catholic) Party, led by portly, colorful, progressive Monsignor Jan Sramek, 75, ex-Prime Minister and now Deputy Prime Minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Revolution by Law? | 10/22/1945 | See Source »

Last week Husband Chester Kolodziej beat her and the two children to death with a two-foot length of pipe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: . . . Even If He Kills Me. | 10/15/1945 | See Source »

...President received two gifts last week: 1) an autographed photo of the late Frederic Knight Logan, modernizer of The Missouri Waltz (one of Harry Truman's favorite songs); 2) an old Sioux pipe of peace, said to have been smoked by Chief Crazy Horse when he decided (after the Custer massacre in 1876) to surrender and return to the reservation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Trouble | 10/8/1945 | See Source »

...theory that by next spring, when the building season starts for most of the U.S., both men and materials will be available on a scale ample to meet the rush. To make the gamble a good one, it has already had OPA put price increases on cast iron, soil pipe, gypsum lath and the clay industry, is now hinting broadly that, to get the labor to make these materials, wages will also have to be hiked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOUSING: Where's the Ceiling? | 10/1/1945 | See Source »

Fine Feathers. In Manhattan, a burglar shinnied up a pipe into a department store, got into the men's wear section, became so fascinated with trying on suits that he spent seven hours at it, finally shinnied down the pipe into the arms of the police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 17, 1945 | 9/17/1945 | See Source »

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