Word: blowtorched
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...engineers putting them together has gone four days with less than four hours' sleep each night. There's a maniacal tinge to their humor. Bald-pated Drew Angeloff has taken to teasing his colleagues with the blue flame of his soldering equipment. "Help!" one screams. "A skinhead with a blowtorch...
...March 16, 1926, Goddard finished building a spindly, 10-ft. rocket he dubbed Nell, loaded it into an open car and trundled it out to his aunt Effie's nearby farm. He set up the missile in a field, then summoned an assistant, who lit its fuse with a blowtorch attached to a long stick. For an instant the rocket did nothing at all, then suddenly it leaped from the ground and screamed into the sky at 60 m.p.h. Climbing to an altitude of 41 ft., it arced over, plummeted earthward and slammed into a frozen cabbage patch...
...Burnett was still reeling, its $100 million Miller Lite account was also heading for Fallon (which does work for TIME as well) in a stealth campaign launched by Philip Morris CEO Geoffrey Bible, whose company owns Miller. Bible had earlier warned Burnett's Fizdale that he was "lighting a blowtorch" under the agency to get it to create sharper and more youth-oriented ads for the flagging Lite brand. In the meantime, he also asked Fallon to work on Lite, in secrecy. In late December, Miller Brewing CEO Jack MacDonough paid a surprise visit to Fizdale with a Merry Christmas...
Until, of course, the tower burned in 1956, leaving what we have now. It was being restored, and rumor has it that a worker with a blowtorch accidentally sparked the conflagration...
...story was buried on the tenth page and went almost unnoticed. Still, students who have seen the cage are outraged by it. One person that I interviewed even suggested, half in jest, that he might be inspired to dismantle the cage in the dead of night with a blowtorch...