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Word: pipeful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ought implies can. Although we agree that the Republican tactic of holding world leadership hostage to abortion politics is distasteful, the staff is foolish to criticize President Clinton for his failure to reach a deal that has no strings attached--a pipe dream in the current Congress...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Politics Before Prestige | 11/23/1999 | See Source »

Soon after leading the first European crossing of the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, explorer Gregory Blaxland was back on his New South Wales farm, tending his vines. By 1822 he had sufficient confidence in his winemaking skills to submit a quarter-pipe (about 37 gal.) of red wine for assessment by the London-based Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. The society's judges awarded him a silver medal--and five years later a gold medal--for a wine they described with tepid enthusiasm as having "much the odor and flavor of ordinary claret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Australian Wine: Liquid Gold | 11/22/1999 | See Source »

...amusement park. Blaubar's assistant, Heimblud is a tall, lanky weasel--an absurd caricature of Mickey Mouse who proves, once and for all, that all rodents are not created equal. The park itself is an odd collage, including a petting zoo, cow-milking competition, and a half pipe for skateboarding teenagers...

Author: By Hugh P. Liebert, | Title: The American Invasion | 10/26/1999 | See Source »

Usually, plumbing systems contain a "water trap," a kind of moat where water collects in a curved pipe. Normally, cockroaches can't cross it, but in the summer months the water evaporates and the roaches can get inside...

Author: By Joyce K. Mcintyre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cockroaches Invade Eliot, Lowell Houses | 9/21/1999 | See Source »

...news story, it lacked for little. A pipe bomb had gone off; authorities needed to send a robot in to check Ashbrook?s body for booby traps. Shiny, happy, God-fearing kids mowed down when God was supposed to be caring for them. A throwback to Cassie Bernall at Columbine, and the shredded prayer circle in Paducah, Ky., last year. CNN followed step by step the rampage, flight and capture of Buford Furrow at the L.A. Jewish Community Center in August. Just one had died. Columbine? We?ve only just now stopped hearing about Columbine. Yet the shooting barely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Floyd and Ft. Worth: A Tale of Two Stories | 9/17/1999 | See Source »

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