Word: pipings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trick ending reveals all the preceding events to have been nothing more than a pipe dream resulting from mass hypnosis induced by a mysterious stranger (Dan O'Herlihy) as a plea for preparedness. To go with this stock plot is a good deal of stock newsreel footage of atomic explosions and battle scenes. The newsreel shots give the picture what little authenticity...
News editors will cover big University stories and varsity sports: pipe smoking editorial writers watch the Administration's spending, both here and in Washington; the photo board snap the shutter on almost anything: white neatly attired business board members cover Cambridge for ads, and cast mats...
...scene, he found part of the well platform a mass of wreckage. The wells' damaged "Christmas trees" (i.e., cluster of valves topping the well pipe) kept the flames close to the platform, making the area too hot to approach. Kinley borrowed a four-man Army team from Louisiana's Camp Polk, tried to shoot off the trees with 75-mm. recoilless rifles. The tree of one well was shot off. Kinley got Pure Oil's crews to weld together a 90-ft. boom of pipe tipped with a big loop and cooled by hundreds of gallons...
...Runs. Handsome Lou Wolfson has been scoring ever since his days as a football star at Jacksonville High School and the University of Georgia. He quit school in his senior year (1932) to organize the Florida Pipe & Supply Co. with his father and older brother. His brothers, Sam, Sol, Cecil and Nathan, became his partners, and they rode the crest of the wave of the expanding chemical and pipeline industries...
...caused by the oversaturation of the nervous system with nitrogen or carbon dioxide under the increased pressure. "The first stage," writes Cousteau, "is a mild anesthesia, after Which the diver becomes a god. If a passing fish seems to require air, the crazed diver may tear out his air pipe or mouth grip [and offer it to the fish] as a sublime gift...