Word: pipes
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Casual observers are quick to dismiss Vladimir Zhirinovsky as a fanatic whose visions of becoming Russia's dictator are pipe dreams. Sixty years ago, the same was said of Hitler. Historian Robert Waite writes. "The story of Hitler's rise to power is the story of his underestimation." Like those who once dismissed Hitler as a fringe lunatic, those who now scoff at Zhirnovsky are taking a dangerous gamble...
Water was shut off at 29G at about 11:30 a.m. so that city employees could work to repair the pipe. It was not turned on again until about 7:30 p.m. residents said...
Walsh now spends most of his day in the third-floor cafeteria of the U.S. District Courthouse, drinking coffee, smoking a pipe and contemplating the 59 counts of bank fraud and conspiracy he faces...
...future for Hispanic groups lies not with pipe-dreams of unity for a broad ethnic group which cannot even be defined, but in small, strong organizations like CAUSA, La O, FUERZA, and RAZA. Know your own culture and history; understand your community well enough to bargain for it; speak your language (without which you can't begin to do the first two things); decide, culturally, where you're coming from and where you're headed--and then we can talk, logically and intelligently, about where our interests really intersect...
...What the hell are you asking us for? Go ask Manfred Worner, or Yeltsin. They're the bigwigs," snapped Asha, cleaning his pipe. Pause. "As far as we're concerned, from now on, the only person worth turning to is Yeltsin. Maybe later on it'll be Zhirinovsky," concluded Asha, frantically trying to light his pipe with a lighter that had the U.N. insignia on it. No go. I guess there wasn't any flint left...