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Word: pipings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pipe Session. At 7:45 the two men emerged into the tropic sunshine and made another rattling journey, this time to Wake's new coral-pink administration building. Their advisers-General Omar Bradley, Frank Pace, Admiral Radford, Philip Jessup and Averell Harriman for the President, Korean Ambassador John Muccio and Brigadier General Courtney Whitney for MacArthur-were waiting. The President suggested that it was no weather for coats. Said MacArthur, pulling out a pipe: "Do you mind if I smoke, Mr. President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The General Rose at Dawn | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

...director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, big, pipe-smoking Cyrus Ching had stuck his lanky legs under countless negotiating tables, earned himself a reputation for homespun, amiable integrity, helped solve many a minor strike, some major ones. Both management & labor trusted him. Forty-six years ago, working as an equipment supervisor on Boston's Elevated Railway Co., he once almost electrocuted himself repairing an overhead wire, blowing out every fuse in the system. He came to a week later, badly burned and partially blind, lay in bed for 15 weeks. Nobody from the company ever came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Come & Get It | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

...mediator, Ching puffs imperturbably on his pipe as he listens, grunts understandingly, grins often, gets a relaxed atmosphere with homely saws. He is good at it. But is he the tough man for the thankless job of wage stabilizer? "I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig," Ching likes to say. "You get dirty and besides the pig likes it." When the time comes to crack down hard on employers or workers, the job may need a man who doesn't mind getting dirty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Come & Get It | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

...learn "good manners." Young Zadkine came home with long hair and a volume of Plutarch, persuaded his father that Paris was the appropriate place for him, and sculpture the right profession. Except for a World War II sojourn in Manhattan, he has lived in Paris ever since, a tweedy, pipe-smoking little man hammering away at sculptures that were often twice his size. Over the years, his Montparnasse studio has become forested with carvings, and they have spilled over into half the museums of Europe. Recently, he was honored with the Grand Prize for sculpture at Venice's vast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Boats & Bombs | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

Early this year, Monogram studios decided to film the life and exploits of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Hiawatha, who, according to legend, went among the warring Indian tribes and persuaded them to smoke the pipe of peace and brotherhood. Last week Monogram announced that the project had been shelved. Reason: Hiawatha hewed too close, for current U.S. taste, to the Communist "peace" line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Ambush | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

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