Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Flight Plan. In Green Bay, Wis., State Reformatory Inmate Robert Toth, 18, volunteered for civil defense ground observer duty, quickly abandoned his midnight post to sneak to the reformatory plumbing shop, put together 20 feet of pipe sections, scaled the wall and disappeared into the night...
...field outside Palo Alto, Calif, last week, a small metal doughnut, six feet across and two feet thick, bustled noisily into the air, then hovered seven feet off the ground. The pilot rode on a platform above the disk, protected by a pipe enclosure. The contraption had no wings, no visible helicopter blades. On display for the first time was the Flying Carpet, built by Hiller Helicopters for the Office of Naval Research...
...BOOM will push the industry's expenditure for new plants and pipe lines to a record $1.4 billion in 1955, the fifth straight year that expansion has topped the $1 billion mark. Nearly a quarter will go for two new pipelines linking Southern and Southwestern gas fields with Midwest and Northwest consumers...
Laborite Leader Clement Attlee smoked his pipe and doodled while the right-wingers, led by Heir Apparent Herbert Morrison and Heir Apparent II Hugh Gaitskell, pressed for outright expulsion. But Clem Attlee, the man who had backed the disciplining of Bevan in the first place, pulled the pipe from his mouth and made a surprise proposal: postpone expulsion and set up a committee to inquire whether Nye Bevan might not be brought into line with party discipline. The right-wingers fought, but lost. With Attlee voting for Bevan, the National Executive decided, 14 to 13, to stay Nye Bevan...
...else fails, there is Keenan Wynn. As somebody called Kovin, a confidant of the prince, poor Keenan has practically nothing to do all through the picture except to stride up and down in a red plush, heel-length smoking jacket, scratch his peruke, suck on a long-stemmed pipe, and grunt. It all gets a little eerie, after a while...