Word: pipefuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Training. Last week Oklahoma's regents named a new president to succeed Cross, who plans to retire in 1968 after 24 years in office. He is John Herbert Hollomon, 48, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce. A pipe-smoking yachtsman with a doctorate in metallurgy from M.I.T., Hollomon was general manager of the General Electric laboratory in Schenectady, N.Y., when President Kennedy named him as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Science and Technology in 1962. President Johnson promoted him to Acting Under Secretary last February. Highly regarded in university circles-Virginia and Pittsburgh were also considering him for president-Hollomon...
...First Motorized Hussars, were informed that Dutch Intelligence expected a possible German invasion on May 9 or 10. We were told to pass out live ammunition to the troops and we were given the exact areas in which paratrooper landings could be expected. Large sections of storm-drain pipe were placed on the runways of the airfields, and trucks were parked at intervals on the middle of the freeways to prevent possible aircraft landings...
Masefield led English poetry out of its Victorian sententiousness and thus earned his modest place in the poets' pantheon. In one of his last books, he wrote: "It is time now to pipe down and coil...
...pipe for them that pay the piper...
...will never know that it was she who drunkenly drove the boy to his death. At film's end, the princess leaves Oxford to fly home. Baker, the self-confident Don Juan, proves to be an ineffectual wan don, unable to stop her. Bogarde resignedly returns to his pipe, his books, his stoic, sad-eyed wife...