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Word: pipeful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Puffing on a corncob pipe, Powell complained: "I told them the House wasn't going to move any sort of legislation like this. It's too late, and they're tired. I told this to the Speaker. I told it to everybody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Dead as Slavery | 9/8/1961 | See Source »

...bandages decorating both hands up to his wrists. Joe, a former minor-league baseball player, kited $100,000 worth of bad checks, went to prison, where he promptly began to make book. After Henry was cleaned out, he slugged himself on the back of the head with a lead pipe so he could tell his wife he had been mugged on the way home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Organizations: Gamblers Anonymous | 8/25/1961 | See Source »

...edgily watching interracial efforts to integrate a suburban swimming pool. And in New York one humid night last week, 60 silent members of a gang that calls itself the Harlem Lords marched across a Harlem River bridge for a rumble in The Bronx. Armed with linoleum knives, lengths of pipe and baling hooks, they warmed up by attacking 20 pedestrians. They were finally stopped by two policemen who held them back with drawn pistols until eight radio cars rolled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Races: Tales of Terror | 7/28/1961 | See Source »

...Showers. If packing, is no problem, or if the family requires more comfort while in the throes of facing the wilderness, get a portable gas stove, grub box, cots, air mattresses, an air pump for the mattresses (one model gets its puffs from the automobile exhaust pipe), charcoal grill, folding toilet ($11.95) and canvas bathtub ($17.50). If the car battery is in good shape, the camper can also load up a small refrigerator, tent heater, fluorescent lamp, electric smoker for chicken, and coffee maker-all of which can be wired like an umbilical cord into the dashboard cigar lighter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: Ah, Wilderness? | 7/14/1961 | See Source »

...Filming One, Two, Three, an East-West satire set in West Berlin and based on a comedy by the late Ferenc Molnar, Director Billy Wilder sent Horst Buchholz, who plays an East German motorcycle bum, past the Brandenburg Gate with a balloon on his exhaust pipe. It inflated, as the script ordered-displaying the words RUSSKI GO HOME. Out came a platoon of People's Police, plus a Russian official who was not amused. Retreating from the row that followed, Wilder moved to Munich, where he is finishing the film beside an enormous reproduction of the Brandenburg Gate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies Abroad: The Locationers | 7/14/1961 | See Source »

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