Word: plumber
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mealtimes the office was so filled with smoke you couldn't see across it.") We hadn't the heart to throw them out on the street, so we bought most of them off for ten pesos. Then we tried turning off the water, but "the plumber had hardly left when our resourceful guests hack-sawed through the main." (At last report TIME-in-Manila still housed some fifty Filipinos. One is a one-legged tailor who has established his shop right inside the front door; another is an elderly gentleman whose sole possessions seem to be twelve...
...from America . . . Considerably less ordered and arranged was Congress' experience with one of its fraternal foreign delegates, the A.F. of L.'s burly George Meany. A tough-talking ex-plumber from New York. Meany carried a verbal rocket in his pocket, lost no time firing it. His target: Soviet Russia, whose fellow fraternal delegate, Michael P. Tarasov, sat an arm's length away...
...taken in, crossed up, and otherwise misled. I read with great interest an article concerning the genus bivalve mollusc, or clam, in your Aug. 20 issue, whereby it would appear some enterprising character named Higgins had revolutionized the time-tested method of clam-digging through the use of a plumber's helper, slush pump, or what have...
Then the trial was over. Seven judges and jurors (among them a plumber, a factory worker, a bookkeeper, a barber) retired to judge a man long ago judged by the world. For three days and three nights, Vidkun Quisling waited...
Said Digger Higgins: "It's very simple, really. You just push down on this plumber's helper, and up come the clams, all clean...