Word: plumbing
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Recently, Sokolov used the name of celebrated bathrom product Draino misspelled it "Draino"--in one puzzles, defining it as a "Plumb- friend." Later, he was surprised through the mails a case of , sent to him by its manufacturer the Drackett Products Company, him proper spelling. Says , in explanation: "They used laugh when I sat down to write ssword Puzzles for the CRIMSON. n I got a case of Draino through mails. They still laugh when I sit --but boy, does my toilet flush...
PRIVATE YANKEE DOODLE (305 pp.)-Joseph Plumb Martin-Little, Brown ($6.50). The Revolutionary War often was fought with tactics that were quaintly old-fashioned or grimly futuristic. During the battle for Fort Mercer, N.J., in 1777, the Americans ran short of ammunition, and soldiers were offered a gill of rum (4 oz.) to retrieve 32-lb. British cannon balls that had fallen short of the mark. U.S. guns then lobbed them back at the British. Near Petersburg, Va., in the closing days of the war, the British captured 700 Negro slaves who had caught smallpox, and deliberately sent them among...
...most ordinary soldiers the war was waged almost as wars today are waged: with courage and cowardice, starvation and gluttony, ingenuity and stupidity. One such colonial dogface was Joseph Plumb Martin, whose Narrative of Some of the Adventures, Dangers and Sufferings of a Revolutionary Soldier, Interspersed with Anecdotes of Incidents That Occurred Within His Own Observation is the most complete surviving account of day-to-day life in the tents and trenches of the ragtag citizen army...
Perhaps no one else has better conveyed that sense to Notre Dame students than witty, incisive English Professor Frank O'Malley, 28 years on the faculty and the university's most inspiring undergraduate teacher. O'Malley plumbs life's most basic emotions, using Charles Peguy to examine the virtue of hope, Claudel to plumb suffering, Kierkegaard to emphasize the shallowness of religion without love. When he reaches students, O'Malley often changes their lives, teaching them to love learning and learn love. "The totality of life has hit me," said one of his students last...
...horizontal latticework of pipes is constructed about ten feet above the ground to be excavated. Hanging plumb lines from this metal checkerboard, the archaeologist marks the ground off into orderly squares, two meters on a side. As objects are uncovered, he records their position relative to this grid system...