Word: pipeful
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Polish or not, Gronouski performed ably as Wisconsin's tax commissioner for the past four years, helped revamp the state's whole revenue system. A Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin, he is an affable, pipe-smoking ex-college professor whose air of rumpled relaxation is deceiving. He is a driving administrator, has worked twelve to 16 hours a day himself, and expects his staff to do the same. He is a militant Democrat who drew constant fire from Wisconsin papers for his partisanship while tax commissioner-a nonelective office. But even state Republicans have grudging...
...more doubt was cast on the racial implications of the fight when a sixth member of the Quartermaster Company was arrested and also charged with homicide and aggravated assault. He was a white man, PFC Allen Gernard, 18, of New York City, who presumably had grabbed a piece of pipe and joined his Negro buddies in the attack on the airmen...
Erik Satie was the court musician of Dadaism. He swooped around Paris in the belle époque of the 1900s with a lighted pipe in his pocket and could be seen most afternoons in the cafés with his pocket gently smoldering. He pronounced himself Pope of the "Metropolitan Church of Art of Jesus the Conductor," issued blizzards of encyclicals and excommunicated unfriendly music critics. He cheerfully orchestrated his music for airplane propellers, lottery wheels and typewriters-and occasion ally delivered it to his friends in the form of paper gliders. He also wrote a little work for piano...
...with the East is in fact declining, slumped to $200 million last year. The U.S. embargo on trade with Red China discourages most Western allies from courting Peking too openly, and NATO's embargo on sales of strategic items prevents the Communists from buying the computers, large-diameter pipe and other Western industrial goods that they desire most. Aside from politics, the cold economic reality is that until the Communist nations are able to produce higher quality goods that can move in Western markets, they will simply lack the foreign exchange to purchase much more from the West...
...servant goes away. The old man puffs at his pipe and stares across the plain...