Word: pipping
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Accurate news was hard to get since the rioters' first act was to cut every trunk telephone line in sight. Most conspicuous leader was one Sergeant Pip Sopena, lately transferred from the Ministry of War to a recruiting office in Badajoz for suspected Communism. Seventy-eight people were killed, many more wounded before the Government with a sigh of relief could declare the revolt well under control...
...painful because it is Daniel Pardway's ambition to leave the Bazaar to his offspring. The news that his general manager has bought up shares in the Bazaar which were presented to the Pardway children brings old Daniel to his deathbed. He makes one more oration to his pip-squeak heirs, receives their frail assurances that they will do better in the future...
Just at dusk last week, long snakelike strings of firecrackers pip-popped from the trees in the Retiro, Madrid's sprawling city park. Gaping crowds spread over the lawns to watch pinwheels swoosh round, rockets sizzle high into the sky. It was the eve of the first birthday of Spain's Republic, the anniversary of the day Alfonso XIII fled from his country. Airplanes dropped 50,000 little red, yellow and purple parachutes; there were gala football matches and bullfights. Pink with pleasure, tousle-haired President Niceto Alcala Zamora reviewed 10,000 troops in the Castellana avenue, presided...
Have you PEP or the Pip...
...takes the "t" out of can't and the "i" out of pip...