Word: pipings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Simenon is best known as the creator of pipe-smoking Inspector Maigret, the kindly, plodding and vaguely troubled French detective. But the keenest Simenon fans have long since stopped thinking of him as a mere mystery writer or even as a literary psychologist. To them he is a real novelist with a special view of life that is instantly conjured up in their minds by the simple mention of his name...
...ambassadors arrived in Geneva, Chou tested with his pitch pipe and sent forth the soft tone which has become so popular in the Kremlin. Said he to a Communist Party Congress in Peking: "The number of American civilians in China is small and their question can be easily settled . . . The Chinese people hope that the countries of Asia and the Pacific region, including the U.S., will sign a pact of collective peace...
...Shivers broke the sad news to Morrow: he had better resign. Morrow recalled what Shivers told him: "It's pure politics, Wright; I need Rayburn's help." Morrow stubbornly refused, and the governor hustled off to headquarters. In a Capitol Hill serving kitchen he smoked the peace pipe with Sam Rayburn and bloodless National Chairman Paul Butler. The sacrifice was coolly arranged...
...pipeline is the most costly and ambitious development project yet undertaken by the bustling Israelis. Starting in 1953, they laid 22,000 sections of concrete-lined steel pipe, each weighing ten tons, and built seven pumping stations and three large reservoirs. The U.S. sent technical aid, most of the tools, and almost all the $24,750,000 required for financing: $4,500,000 as a direct U.S. grant-in-aid, another $9,350,000 indirectly in counterpart funds, the remainder in private funds...
Pratt & Whitney's silencer has not yet been tested in flight. For actual installation in airliners, it will be made of several telescoping cylinders fitting around the tail pipe, and a segmented cone that can be closed or opened. When the airplane takes off within earshot of neighbors, the cylinders will be extended and the cone closed. The mighty stream of hot gases will be broken into small and comparatively quiet jets. After the aircraft is high in the air, the cylinders will be drawn back into the engine's nacelle and the cone will be opened. Then...