Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Water backed up within the pipe and was forced through the sewage system's ejectors Saturday night. It eventually poured out of the toilets and sinks of the first-floor women's bathroom. The water swamped the carpets in the entry-way and, according to residents, seeped into both the junior common room and the small dining room...
...entry-way, releasing odors and letting frigid air into the entry. The workers pulled the carpets outside and brought in various machines and tools. The sewage problem lasted until Sunday morning, when two emergency plumbers, Tom Wiley and Charlie Mourn, sent a clearing device through the clogged pipe...
...tube led from the exhaust pipe to the front seat of the silver Toyota where an Oxford neighbor last week discovered the body of a distinguished English clergyman, Canon Gareth Bennett. The suicide of the university don and historian ordinarily might have been a sad but briefly noted counterpoint to the Christmas season. Instead, the tragedy was catapulted into prominence by the fact that only four days earlier Bennett had become embroiled in a stupendous furor in the Church of England. The uproar, it seems clear, drove him to his death...
HARVARD. The very name evokes images of brick buildings, libraries stuffed to the brim with books and four years of study in wood-panneled rooms with the smell of pipe tobacco wafting from all the professorial types gathered around campus...
...repairman from New York's Long Island Lighting Co. was trying to fix a faulty home-heating system when he found a mysterious oily sludge in the natural-gas pipe connected to the house. LILCO soon learned that the substance contained dangerous concentrations of PCBs, a class of highly toxic industrial chemicals. That startling discovery in 1981 eventually led the Environmental Protection Agency to launch a major investigation of Texas Eastern, the Houston-based firm that supplied the gas to LILCO. Last week, in the largest settlement of an EPA case in history, Texas Eastern (1986 revenues: $4.1 billion) agreed...