Word: pipings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...payments. His profanity ("Hell 'n Maria") and tart, impulsive manner caused comment at home, more so abroad. In England, as U.S. Ambassador, he staunchly refused to appear in the standard knee breeches,* turned up at court wearing ordinary evening dress and at state functions smoked the big underslung pipe that became his trademark. A busy man all his life, he dabbled in projects from Chicago's 1933 World's Fair to California's Forest Lawn Cemetery, wrote music for his violin (his Melody is still available on records), was heard from in recent years only...
...attack scored 11 of the 13 goals and made five of the eight assists. Captain Rick Hudner, who went most of the route, paced the attack with four goals and one assist. Most of his goals came on his tricky specialty shot which bounces just inside the far pipe...
...some coffee?" He was stretched back in his chair with his feet on a cluttered desk. His white shirt was open at the neck, and a set of large, red plastic pens was sticking out of a sheath attached to his belt. His hands were toying with an old pipe which had lost half of its stem many years ago. On one wall was hanging a black-board which read "Crimson interview at 1:30--Later: Finish 'Mass Appeal' Chapter--Look for Hickey Letter--Write Ben Hibbs." Bill explained that Admiral Hickey is the Navy Public Information Chief...
Bill discussed some of the courses he was auditing and described his favorite professors: Chafee, Morison, and MacLeish. He used hand gestures continually and occasionally interrupted himself to curse at his pipe or swallow some coffee. His light blue eyes had a twinkle in them, and he frequently wore a broad smile. He talked slowly and looked very pleased as he began to discuss his wife Ethel. "You've got to come out and meet her and the three kids. We have a house in Belmont. It seems like half of Lowell House is out there every evening...
Then he began thinking about the laborious process of making steel pipe from solid blocks of metal. Shortly after, the company began turning steel sheets into 40-ft. tubes, which a flash-welding machine transformed into pipe in 30 seconds. As a result, Smith not only revolutionized the steel-pipe industry, but made possible the web of gas and oil pipelines covering the U.S., including World War II's Big Inch and Little Big Inch pipelines (built with A. O. Smith pipe). Some newer products: glass-insulated hot-water heaters for homes, steel-and-glass silos for farms which...