Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...burning marijuana. Most tea pads are supplied with a juke box (known in marijuanese as a "piccolo"). Clients who have assembled to "have a pad" may smoke their own reefers. But commonly they blast the goof-butt collectively, passing a single reefer around from mouth to mouth like a pipe of peace. Next morning, enjoying a heavy sensation very much like an alcoholic hangover, they are said to be "down...
...brother's keeper. Submariners must be healthy and intelligent, but, more important than everything else, they must be emotionally well-balanced. The strain of a war patrol is too great for the man with quirks, for sourpusses or incurable practical jokers. Thus sub men have an air of pipe-smoking imperturbability and quiet good humor that no other group of fighting men can match...
Under Amiable Pipe Smoke. For the past four months patient, shrewd Georges Catroux has been a go-between for his country's unity. As negotiator between De Gaulle and Giraud he made many a trip between Algiers and London before the two French leaders finally met. French men have known him as a many-sided, yet singleminded, person-a lover of Siamese cats, a devotee of Montaigne, a diplomat as well as soldier, a great Colonial. He met Henri Giraud while both were serving under the late, great Marshal Lyautey against the Riffs. He learned to call Charles...
...chaplains (there were only 96 in 1939) got only haphazard training. A new chaplain simply worked under a veteran, picked up the knack from him. In February 1942, 58-year-old Navy Chief of Chaplains Robert DuBois Workman, who smokes cigars in his ten-inch stem pipe, organized the first training school at Norfolk. Last March the school, jammed with new candidates-Protestants, Catholics and Jews -moved to the Virginia college, where several groups of 25 to 40 constantly train for duty...
...imaginative ten-year-old set out to make a toy gun for himself by hooking two pieces of gas pipe together, he might wind up with something looking remarkably like the U.S. Army's newest war tool, the M-3 submachine gun, unveiled last week...