Word: pipestem
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Winner. CBS President Frank Nicholas Stanton, 42, who spearheaded the CBS color fight, stands just under 6 ft. and weighs 175 Ibs. His expression is at once attentive and stolid; his strong jaw is often clamped firmly on a pipestem. A certain lack of facial animation, together with his carefully parted, yellow-blond hair, have led wags to call him "the Veronica Lake...
Within four days and 23 hours after LeMay got his orders, Rosie's B-29s were bombing targets in Korea. LeMay almost worked up a pleased smile at this achievement,-then nearly bit through his pipestem when he heard that his high-bombers had been used, as they were never intended to be, in low, front-line support...