Word: pipefuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...example, when he turned out 40 books in one year. Simenon's yearly harvest is now four, and he uses an IBM electric typewriter in place of the pencils that once lasted only three lines each before they became blunted and were tossed away. Puffing constantly on a pipe (like Maigret), Simenon begins a book by christening its characters (from a slew of international telephone books he keeps on hand for the purpose) and providing each with detailed dossiers. Maigret, for instance, is heavyset, patient as Job and frequently compassionate toward the murderers he catches. Then, in what...
...sound; Boston has opened up in the past few years--there are more small theatres, more special rates for students. "We've made the college student a first-class citizen in the market-place of Boston," Lewis said. And according to Kenneth S. Opin, BAD's newest staff member (pipe and three-piece suit), who up until this week had handled advertising for such entertainment businesses as the Charles Playhouse and Sack Theatres, the number of small residence theatres in Boston has more than tripled since BAD began publishing. And when the Craft Experimental Theatre was playing Transplant, given...
...Building and Grounds painter has begun scraping the peeling walls of Mower Hall's A-Entry, which was flooded by an exploding radiator pipe during Christmas vacation...
...some corners from the U.S. Geological Survey, an arm of the Interior Department that has the responsibility of enforcing federal laws governing drilling, Union Oil went ahead and drilled A21. Having burrowed down 3,500 ft. below the ocean floor, the riggers than began to retrieve the pipe in order to replace a drill bit. At a point during the withdrawal, the drilling "mud," which is constantly pumped into the well to maintain pressure, became dangerously inadequate for the job. The well blew. An initial attempt to cap the hole was successful, but that led to a tremendous buildup...
...England, they cry, long-legged mysteries of girls on Garden Street, secrets of Schoenhofs, wonders of Wideners. The small warm rooms, and the man with the pipe, and the strange wild fury which rages in purity around the kiosk. Oh lost, and by the wind greaved, Floral Park, Long Island, I long...