Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...listen to the latest report on what junior said. One daddy with four children kept going through the tough infantry course by imagining how pleasant it would be if he only had his kids along to help him--one to carry his rifle, another his canteen, the third his pipe, and the fourth his slippers...
Will the Senator Pipe Down? Thus, for five hours, Senator Wheeler spoke to empty seats and took his heckling. Though his evidence was hearsay, he had made three points: 1) many a Government bureau is overstaffed, 2) many a war plant, particularly those with cost-plus contracts, has used occupational deferments to hoard unnecessary workers, 3) if U.S. manpower were used more efficiently, fewer fathers would be drafted. But Senator Wheeler had changed no one's mind about his bill to defer fathers. At the unanimous urging of Army, Navy, Selective Service and Manpower Commission, Congress will do nothing...
...Johnson is himself a savory ingredient in this academic melting pot. In his nearly 70 years he has taught economics at Columbia, Nebraska, Texas, Chicago, Cornell, Stanford, Yale. Much to the puzzlement of his more exotic colleagues, he remains in manner the Nebraska-born yokel. Slow-spoken, foot-shuffling, pipe-sucking, he is as crammed with rural lore as an October silo with corn. Johnson's happiest moments include working with his seven children in his Nyack, N. Y. garden...
Strategically, the booming Norman Wells development on the banks of the Mackenzie is of highest importance. The field is fortunately placed on the global maps. From North America to Asia, air routes over Alaska and the Aleutians are considerably shorter than the transpacific route via Hawaii. Gas within pipe-spurt of the northern take-off fields, aviation gas which need not be trucked or flown in, is vital in the Army's aeropolitics...
Among the first to preach artillery's new possibilities was quiet, pipe-smoking Brigadier General Jesmond Dene Balmer, now Field Artillery School Commandant. Seven months in wartime Washington had taught him that orders are not only to be obeyed but anticipated. Long before the War Department fully realized what time fire could do, Jess Balmer was calling for its use on a huge scale. North Africa proved his point-and led ground forces to multiply orders for time shells. Long before the War Department had recognized the G.F.T., Sill was turning out homemade ones, paper strips mounted on beaverboard...