Word: piping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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First, there is lots of work involved in sawing down trees large enough to be used for lumber, but even after they are down, the stumps are still in the field and need to be bulldozed out. The land might need drainage ditching with plastic pipe or clay tile buried in the ground before it would be very productive...
...will replace the maples with 18-foot tall sycamore trees as soon as the project is completed. The sewage pipe will intercept mixed sewage and storm water now discharged into the Charles River and divert it to the MDC's Deer Island treatment plant...
Moncreiff said that his committee began mobilizing support against the tree removal when "it was too late to do anything about it." He said he had been assured by Sears that in the second phase of the project--which will bring the sewer's pipe line up as far as Lowell St. at the Mt. Auburn Street Hospital--"the community will be consulted at every juncture...
With its stereo, Dunhill pipe rack and mobile telephone, the Rolls is almost a house on wheels. Which is not too strange, really, because the road is Flip's only real home. "Quite often I feel the tension, and I'll go driving into the desert," he says. On such occasions he keeps a note pad handy to jot down his thoughts. "I don't go to create, I go to relax," he explains. "But I've never gone and not come back with something-a couple of stories, a handful of one-liners...
...small bamboo shack. The interior was dark except for one lamp used for lighting the opium. Sleeping bodies lay on wooden benches along the walls. I lay down on one of the empty benches and an attendant handed me one end of a long, thin pipe. He stuffed the other end full of opium, pierced a hole in the center of it, and held it upside down over the lamp. He told me to draw as hard as I could until all the opium in the pipe was burnt up. I did this and exhaled the cool, sweetish smoke...