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...said, smiling almost despite himself. "What rule do I look at?" Twinkling his delight, Judge Smith cited the rule by which he could -and did -put off civil rights hearings for a precious while. Recalls Smith, puffing on his old curved pipe: "I felt like a well-fed missionary at a cannibals' convention. They were really mad at me. I don't blame them a bit. I would have been mad had I been in their shoes...
...Pipe. Another system is to mount the nozzle at the end of a large, flexible coupling so it can switch from side to side like the combustion chamber of a liquid-fuel rocket. This is extremely difficult because the flexible pipe must carry the giant flow of hot, high-speed, high-pressure gas without leaking or burning out. But Ritchey implied that it can be done in an efficient way that causes little drag loss...
...years ago. Today, suave, slight Dr. Lin. 63, is an orphan no longer. Last Sunday he sat in the congregation of his new church-Manhattan's Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church-and listened attentively to the sermon of its Scottish-born pastor, the Rev. David Read. Afterward, puffing a pipe in the sun-filled living room of his modern apartment on Manhattan's East Side, the onetime pagan explained his new position...
...tense scene in which she is forced to reveal the real causes for her fascination with rabbits, are among the most pulse-racing moments in the history of the theatre. The scene, by contrast, where Alice wakes up to see the familiar symbols of reality, the beard, the pipe, and the framed diploma from Vienna, is as heartwarming an affirmation as has ever been presented on the stage. Magnificent--a word not often used in these pages--is the only word to describe the number she sings at this point, I'll Crouch on My Couch, which closes the show...
...leading authority on the Jivarro Indians of the Orinoco Valley. Professor Quaeritor is well known as Harvard's Malinowski and Margaret Mead, combined into one, as it were. He patted the the miniscule head and took a deep breath on a blow gun he has rigged up as a pipe...