Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...northern Brazil-a tribe so backward that they have not yet discovered pots. But their hallucinatory snuff can induce a "trip" faster than LSD. Made from the bark of the epena and ama asita trees, epena is administered through a blowpipe. The tripster puts one end of the pipe to his nostril, and a helper gives a full-lunged blast that sends the snuff deep into the nasal passages. At first reeling and retching from the impact, the snuff taker soon straightens up, begins to strut, emits an occasional laugh or yell, and slaps his thighs in selfesteem. Evidently...
...forth a fanfare, and dozens of swords swirled in salute But the arrival was not the customary motorcade-and-siren sort of thing. Harold Wilson had come from the British embassy on foot down the Rue St. Honore and there he was: hatless, in rumpled suit, hands in pockets, pipe in mouth, t was a fitting prelude for a meeting between the socialist from Yorkshire and the grand seigneur who had regally blackballed Britain's entry into the Common Market...
Damage to People. Pollutants that injure plants and erode stone are likely to have a damaging effect on humans too. Motorists who would never contemplate committing suicide by running a hose from their exhaust pipe into the car often unknowingly endanger their lives by exposing themselves to large amounts of carbon monoxide on expressways and in tunnels and garages. Though an hour's exposure to 1,500 parts of monoxide per million parts of air can endanger a man's life, only 120 parts per million for an hour can affect his driving enough to cause an accident...
...shown even more restraint: its price move on tubular products, which comprised 10% of the industry's output, was the first such increase in eight years. Even so, baffled economists pointed out that it came at a time when the construction industry, a major user of steel pipe, is in decline. Moreover, it seemed to ignore the growing competition from foreign steelmakers, who accounted for about 10% of all sales in the U.S. last year. There is a suspicion in Washington that steel, for one, may yet have to rescind its price increases-not so much because of Government...
Despite its informality, Sachs's course was no pipe. "One of our first assignments was to memorize all the objects in a room at the Fogg," remembers Curator Lieberman. "And of course we did it." Sachs liked to teach more by anecdotes than academics. "He talked about all his purchases," remembers Curator Rousseau, "and gave us a sense of the tactics you have to learn. A museum person has to be fast on his feet-a scholar, a collector, a dealer and a showman all mixed with diplomacy. Sachs was all these things...