Word: piping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...life are less barbed and the humor less sardonic. There is a tramp who lives on baked potatoes and slugs of brandy. There is an alcoholic street singer, a kind of turn-of-the-century Bing Crosby ("Boo-boobooboo-boo"). And there is Grandma from Sweden who chews pipe dottle and comes to Denmark fully intending to die, but lives on to plague and embarrass the boy's mother with her unhousebroken back-country habits...
...ivory pipe which first attracted my attention, and the words he uttered unmistakenly escaped from it between irregular puffs of smoke. The small man facing me was John Gates, former editor of the Daily Worker and a leading figure in the Communist Party of the United States for more than 27 years...
...burned behind his tired and blurry eyes. Not even his faith in radicalism, a movement to which he had devoted the greater part of his life, had been able to hold back the wrinkled and weather-beaten appearance he presented. Leaning back in his chair, he re-lit his pipe, and assumed a reflective fixity in his rendezvous with the past...
...difficulty keeping his pipe lit, and interrupted his reflections long enough to make another attempt. "The Communists recognized the danger of Fascism, and 3000 Americans, most of them Communists, volunteered for the International Brigade to fight in Spain. There were other people in these movements, but at times it seemed the Communists were alone." The expression of loneliness he wore on his face as he spoke was striking. His whole life had been confined to association with a few intensely dedicated people, and now he longed to enter the world of the apathetic masses, the people who had somehow been...
...committee members, Massachusetts' Democratic Senator John Kennedy and New York's Republican Senator Irving Ives, took their political lives in their hands in their heavily industrial states. The lone dissident was Michigan's Democratic Senator Pat McNamara, for 18 years an official of a pipe fitters' local, who argued that organized labor could clean its own house, heavy-handedly suggested that it was time for the McClellan committee to go out of business. He was promptly and loudly supported by A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, who called the report "a disgraceful example...