Word: pipes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Leopard" around Chicago, was yelling like a madman--so loud that I couldn't even hear the captain call the shots when the team was in place on the line of cribbage. So, even though it was Papa Tiger sitting behind me, I turned around and told him to pipe down. I mean, just because he is the Bears' team doctor, it doesn't give him a right to go around yelling at the top of his lungs so no one else can hear what's going on. But, then, you know what they say--poor Uncle Hal is losing...
...that prince of the Enlightenment, left the 19th century muttering about his illegitimate children by Sally Hemings, and about his nephews Lilburne and Isham Lewis, who murdered a slave on the Kentucky frontier. Andrew Jackson's wife Rachel was widely satirized as a country clod who smoked a pipe. Mary Todd Lincoln, a sad and slightly unhinged woman, went on shopping sprees that left her $27,000 in debt by 1864. Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt suffered posthumous humiliations at the hands of their own children. Seven years ago, Elliott Roosevelt wrote a book discussing his father's love...
...infernal place of Gila monsters, scorching earth, mesquite and giant cactus. For centuries, the section of southern Arizona now designated as the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument has been crossed by people risking death in hope of finding a better life: Spanish explorers, missionaries, men drawn by California gold. They come now, still seeking the golden dream, from Mexico and Central America, an illegal but relentless stream. Last week the desert-beautiful to those who know it, deadly to the unprepared-claimed 13 more victims...
...gift in the mail from an unknown admirer. After ripping open the package, he awkwardly pulled the book it contained out, away from his body. That move probably saved his life. Inside the hollowed-out copy of Sloan Wilson's novel Ice Brothers was a spring-activated pipe bomb filled with explosive black powder and pieces of shrapnel. Because the bomb exploded a few feet away, Wood survived, though suffering heavy lacerations on his legs and chest...
...field's professional association, the American Society for Industrial Security, has increased 133% in the past five years. A New York State chemical firm uses helicopters to move officials in and out of headquarters, both for business trips and commuting. Security at Houston's United Gas Pipe Line Co. was beefed up this year after a former employee armed with a loaded gun and a hand grenade held two high executives hostage in their office for three hours...