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Word: pipings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when they produced Simons, the affair began to sound oddly like something from a musical comedy. He turned out to be a mild-mannered, unshaven little man who smoked a pipe. He admitted his sins with a cheerful and relieved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ATOM: Bull by the Tail | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

...same problems you have. How come? Now, Joe, don't look so damned smug. Your costs are up . . ." One colonel complained that he was being marked down for "an act of God," because an eagle had damaged one of his planes in flight. LeMay sucked on his pipe, replied in a flat, low voice: "I'm not interested in distinguishing between the unfortunate and the inefficient. The result is the same." Such ruthlessness, which comes easily to some commanders, can either be sensible or silly. One of LeMay's victims shrewdly summed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Background For War: MAN IN THE FIRST PLANE | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

...hello to you; he just looks up from his desk, nails you with a stare and listens," one SACman says. "You begin talking and you don't hear a reply-all you hear is your own voice. Then, when you are in mid-sentence he takes the pipe out of his mouth and says, 'Get to the point.' A minute or two later: 'You're straying from the point. Don't waste my time. Come back when you've got this thing in hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Background For War: MAN IN THE FIRST PLANE | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

...only place where he is likely to unbend is in the privacy of the commanding general's red brick house, across from the green Offutt parade ground. There, in the evenings, he sits in a comfortable armchair pulling at his ever-present pipe. His gregarious, twinkly eyed wife Helen, whom he met 19 years ago at a dance, is not afraid to chatter, or to stray as far from the point as she chooses. SAC's officers have unconcealed admiration for LeMay's eleven-year-old daughter Jane, who frequently tells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Background For War: MAN IN THE FIRST PLANE | 9/4/1950 | See Source »

...Chicago, United Paramount Theaters, Inc. signed an agreement to pipe Western Conference football games into three Chicago theaters and one in Detroit. Since no Big Ten games will be telecast to the public this fall, the four theaters will have exclusive rights to the games as they are played. NBC Vice President "Chic" Showerman happily ticked off the advantages: "On large-screen theater TV you can smell the players, they're that close. You can go to a game, you won't have to wear the old raccoon coat, and you don't have to get drunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: No Flask | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

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