Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pretty, brown-eyed Mrs. Hoge knows how to live the frontier life. As a general's lady she still does her cooking and washing. When the general is in town they take a short evening stroll on the board sidewalk with their fox terrier-Hoge puffing a favorite pipe. Nettie Hoge has led frontier life before. In the Philippines her husband built the main road on Bataan. But she has waited behind the lines, as when he won the D.S.C. for driving a bridge across the Meuse under fire in World...
...Hard-set reinforced concrete makes the best plug-a two-inch steel pipe lowered into the hole, and packed inside and out with cement. But concrete that is not reinforced can be drilled out like the filling of an old tooth...
Thus shipyard labor was warned to quit shirking for the duration. Six men were ejected from Moore Drydock Co., others were fired from Western Pipe & Steel Co. and Bethlehem Steel Corp. yards. Said Charles P. Adams, personnel director at Moore, "These were extreme cases...
Joseph Stalin stands behind a paper-littered work table. He is smoking a pipe and wears the rough clothes of a peasant soldier. Enter Prime Minister Winston Churchill, followed by Special U.S. Envoy William Christian Bullitt. Churchill is wearing a seagoing cap and a short pea jacket; he is puffing on a long cigar. Bullitt is wearing grey striped trousers and cutaway coat with a dark red carnation in the buttonhole...
...obstacle race, was a big black fellow, knotty of muscle, sleek of thigh. He leaped a seven-foot wall, writhed easily hand-over-hand up a rope, scrambled over a log breastwork, pawed up one side of a big rope web and down the other, snaked through a culvert pipe and broad-jumped a trench...