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Word: pipeful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...passengers every rush hour. Just before dawn, heavily armed cops swarmed into a first-floor apartment. One of the men inside reached into a bag, while another lunged for one of the officers' guns. Both men were shot repeatedly. The bag turned out to contain a powerful pipe bomb, one of several in the apartment. The suspect had succeeded in flicking one of four toggle switches needed to detonate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUBWAY SCARE: TERROR TAKES AIM AT NEW YORK | 8/11/1997 | See Source »

...Apparently they weren't carrying the required equipment: a special air supply pipe, which will arrive only in the fall. Until then, Mir's crew will have to keep lighting oxygen candles in order to breathe. In the meantime, they'll be able to console themselves with the one thing the cosmonauts did bring: souvenirs for everyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oops, Forgot the Oxygen | 8/8/1997 | See Source »

...Apparently they weren't carrying the required equipment: a special air supply pipe, which will arrive only in the fall. Until then, Mir's crew will have to keep lighting oxygen candles in order to breathe. In the meantime, they'll be able to console themselves with the one thing the cosmonauts did bring: souvenirs for everyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oops, Forgot the Oxygen | 8/7/1997 | See Source »

BROOKLYN: In a shoot-out at an apartment in Brooklyn, police found five pipe bombs that may have been intended for a terrorist attack on New York's commuter rail system. The early-morning raid forced the evacuation of neighbors and closed down several rush-hour subway lines. Officers shot and wounded two of the three Middle Eastern men in the apartment during the assault. Mayor Rudolph Guiliani said one was shot when he appeared to be trying to detonate one of the explosive devices. Two of the men, identified as Jhazi Abu Mezer, 23, and Lafi Khalil, 22, carried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Possible Terrorists Captured in Brooklyn | 7/31/1997 | See Source »

...House officials say. The White House responded to the note Thursday by repeating the President's previous assertions that he does not recall making telephone solicitations from the executive mansion, but cannot rule out the possibility. In the meantime, until a clarification of the existing law comes down the pipe, the White House appears content to play legal hopscotch. While White House counsel reportedly advised employees not to make any phone solicitations from federal property, Gore has said he understood they were legal if made with a political credit card...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Phone Talk | 6/30/1997 | See Source »

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