Word: pipeful
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Seventy-four lines of this is too much. The central image of the poem is an old sewage pipe through which he and his childhood companions once crawled. If Lewis had pared down the poem to focus on this symbol and eliminated the endless verbiage about cold snow, matted leaves, flat grasses, maple hedges, gray stems, tattered bark, and yellow sun, "March, Returned From Home" could have been a good poem. As it stands, it is sprawling, chaotic, and almost incomprehensible...
Across the rolling farmlands of central Ohio's Morrow County last week lumbered heavy trucks laden with pipe. In the county's once-slumbering towns -Mt. Gilead, Cardington and Edison, roughly 40 miles north of Columbus-dusty station wagons from several states competed for parking spaces. Husky, plastic-helmeted men searched for scarce furnished rooms. The night sky glowed orange, and the air was filled with an acrid stench. "That smell used to make me deathly sick," says one Morrow County resident, "but now it doesn't bother me at all." And why should...
...REDEYE is a bazooka-like weapon that blasts out a baseball-bat-sized two stage missile carrying an infrared, heat-seeking guidance system. It is able to search out the hot tail pipe of a low-flying jet fighter flashing along at supersonic speeds. Once Redeye "finds" the target, it flies into the exhaust and explodes. Most impressive aspect of Redeye: it weighs only 28 Ibs. loaded, can be hauled over the roughest battlefield terrain and can be fired at strafing jets from the shoulder of a single infantryman. Scheduled for production in a few months, Redeye will...
...will smoke [Jan. 17] until the day I die. I have smoked for over 45 years. I smoke cigarettes, cigars and a pipe. This is nobody's business but mine. First they wanted to stop people from drinking. That didn't work. Then they wanted to stop people from having babies. That won't work. Now they want to tell people if they can smoke or not. Who are they to tell other people what to do and how to run their lives...
Fieser said that he currently smokes Larks and, occasionally, a pipe. Though he stated that the safest course of action would be to stop smoking he refused to say whether he had any plans to quit...