Word: pipes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gotten a weapon, a stout handle with a piece of jagged, rusted metal still attached to one end, by jumping the fence into a restricted area and taking it from behind a tool shed. From the power plant I stole a short length of steel pipe and from the kitchen a table knife. I sharpened the table knife on cement, the way I had a similar one at Danbury when I learned from the authorities that an informer had told the FBI there was a contract out on me and I declined official protection in favor of my own method...
...shoes, and arranged the covers over me. Lying alongside my body under the blanket was the big ax handle. I could sweep that handle out in a second and knock two men off their feet by striking directly at their knees. In my hand was the knife, and the pipe was under my pillow. I was ready...
Youngsters in Atlanta are buying marijuana pipes disguised as Star Wars space guns. In San Francisco, a hot item, especially for Star Trekkies, is a glass cocaine pipe that is a replica of the U.S.S. Enterprise. In Washington, D.C., they are snatching up 18th century silver salt dishes ideal for snorting cocaine. More than 15,000 "head shops"* across the country cater to drug users; they are at the heart of a thriving drug paraphernalia industry that may take in more than half a billion dollars a year. So far it has proved nearly impossible to uproot the shops: virtually...
...settlement activity shows that Israel is not serious. Begin won't formally annex the West Bank," says Abu Zuluf, "because he doesn't want all those Palestinians voting for the Knesset. He just wants the land and not the people." The tall (6 ft. 6 in.), pipe-smoking editor, a onetime basketball star at the American University of Beirut, is especially anxious for a settlement because two of his three sons, who are studying at universities in England, "are hinting that they don't want to come back here without peace." Adds Abu Zuluf sadly...
...sort, wearing green-bordered knee socks and walking boots, Libby has trekked across the country to find out what her father is like. She suffers instant disenchantment. Dressed in seedy duds with a baseball cap glued to his head, Herb is not at all the David Niven type, with pipe, Great Danes, and book-lined living room, that Libby had envisioned...