Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would like to share the digs. I agreed. I watched her unpack. Donna had exquisite transparent cami-knickers, little lace panties, corsets, lots of nylons. We talked for a time. Then Donna gave me my first shock. She asked: 'Would you mind if I smoked a pipe...
They opened the doors of the Old south Theater around midnight last Saturday and three thousand yards of seersucker rolled out. exam period ennui and a revival of the dozen year old Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers performance in "Top Hat" combined to pipe half of Harvard over the river and into Boston...
...toward the Quebec town of Asbestos (pop. 8,500). A heavy truck pulled across the road and the sedan screamed to a skidding stop. A mob of striking asbestos workers sprang from roadside ditches and hedges. They ignored warning police shots, charged in, beat the detectives with lengths of pipe, chair legs and homemade clubs. For the first time in its three months' strike (TIME, Feb. 28), the Canadian and Catholic Confederation of Labor had turned from its policy of nonviolence...
...build a missile that can fly 5,000 miles and hit within 15 or 20 miles of a given target. "That's not close enough," he admits, "and it's too expensive." Another high authority believes that even this very moderate accuracy is "only a pipe dream...
...viper." Izaak Walton regaled him with anecdotes about the young bricklayer named Ben Jonson who went to Cambridge and died court poet; from an ancient servant he heard of the historic day when Sir Walter Raleigh, fresh from the New World, threw the ladies into fits by puffing a pipe of tobacco. From here & there, Aubrey gleaned tales about a Stratford butcher's boy who was caught poaching; in fact, John Aubrey was one of William Shakespeare's first biographers...