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Word: pipeful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Woman's Place. In Houston, after ordering coffee from his waitress wife at the Do-Nut Hole drive-in, Paul Anderson threw it at her, smashed his truck against the building, broke all the restaurant's windows and much of its equipment with an iron pipe, told police that he didn't want his wife working there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 3, 1956 | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

Last week twelve U.A.W. apostles took the word to 2,532 plumbers and pipe fitters attending a national convention in Kansas City. The U.A.W. argued that it is their fight too, gave delegates anti-Kohler Kits containing union propaganda, campaign buttons (Don't Buy Kohler), and lists of merchants and contractors who do buy Kohler. The biggest meeting of U.S. plumbers in history cheered a unanimous "aye" to a resolution urging federal agencies to "refrain from granting contracts to Kohler, or purchase of its products." Washington of course will ignore the plea, continue to buy from the lowest bidder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The Big Boycott | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

...driving, see. cool like down the freeway. A young kid in a twin pipe job come up on me fast on the right. He was a goner. He cockeyed near cooled me, man. So I said, 'Jimmy, let's write a song about this cool cat.' I don't even know the name of the guy. But I got even. Man, I got even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cutting the Mustard | 8/13/1956 | See Source »

Watching professors struggle with bigger and bigger classes as enrollments inexorably swell, many a college president has eyed TV with a seemingly simple solution in mind: Why not put the professors on television and pipe it to several classrooms? Last week, in London's Sunday Times, Oxford Graduate Geoffrey Wagner, who took part in an experimental televised English-literature course as a lecturer at Columbia University, reported his personal experiences in terms that may give college presidents pause. His verdict: TV will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Teacher & TV | 7/23/1956 | See Source »

Died. Wythe Williams, 74, puckish, pipe-smoking magazine editor and newspaperman, sometime foreign correspondent for the New York World, New York Times. Satevepost (1925-26), chief correspondent (1931-36) for Hearst papers in London, founding president (1939) of Manhattan's Overseas Press Club of America; of cancer; in Jersey City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 23, 1956 | 7/23/1956 | See Source »

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