Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...olive oil importers this Spanish offer looked like good business. And since three Spanish merchant ships a month are making scheduled sailings to U.S. ports, and Allied Nations ships returning from the Mediterranean recently have been allowed to bring back such nonessentials as a thousand bags of briarwood for pipe makers, the problem of westbound shipping space seemed no obstacle. But the State Department said No to imports of Spanish olive...
After six years in China, Chennault is as American as a baseball bat. With eyes narrowed and cheeks twitching, he can discuss the quickest way to kill in battle and the next moment, leaning back in his chair and puffing contentedly on his pipe, tell of his longing to return to Louisiana and shoot ducks. He talks incessantly about his family of eight children, is openly proud of the fact that five of his six boys are in service. His ever-present companion is a dachshund, Joe, a veteran of the China air lanes. He likes...
...James Thomas, newly returned home, tried to produce some hot water for a bath, stoked & stoked the heater, finally discovered that somebody had tapped the wrong pipe - one of his children came running from the pond in the yard shouting: "Daddy, the fish are cooking." How Now, Old Mole? In London, a married woman was jailed for helping conceal her lover, a French deserter. She had hidden him for 16 months under her floor, in an 11-by-3 ft. hideaway. He was nabbed when he popped out, suspecting that three other men were around the house...
...Nettie Thompson, a revolver strung from her neck-to use on interlopers-stuck to her barren cattle land on Wyoming's Polecat Bench. She had homesteaded there in 1913 after hearing tales of a ranch hand who traced a suspicious smell to a prairiedog hole, lit his pipe as he peered into it-and woke up in the hospital. He had smelled natural...
...mean I got messenger dooty?" asked the one and only A.J., apparently forgetting that he is a drate big Bee man now. When the war is ever Bill (Flag) Asker is a lead pipe cinch to have trouble computing his income tax, because it is doubtful that he will ever got out of that 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 rut he now is in. The government won't like it, Bill...