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...break-in was reported two nights ago at the main Building and Grounds maintenance yard. A steam shovel, a blowtorch, and 100,000 square feet of sod were the only items taken as a result of the heist, the first such heist of this scale in recent memory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $45K Lost in Break-In: Blow Torch, Shovel | 11/21/1987 | See Source »

Yale police refused comment on the fact that a male Caucasian wearing a blue hockey jersey, a blue bandanna, blue sunglasses, and blue sneakers was seen exiting the rink in broad daylight yesterday with the entire heating system and a blowtorch...

Author: By Matt Wagner, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Trying to Keep the Hockey Ice Slushy | 11/21/1987 | See Source »

Richard Viguerie, the right wing's genial blowtorch, is absolutely correct when he howls that Ronald Reagan has "abandoned every last pretense" of standing up against the Washington establishment. Reagan has lost his presidency for the time being to that moiling collection of political people and purposes that form the capital's core from generation to generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The Establishment Steps In | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

...which weakened an O ring, one of a pair of synthetic-rubber washers that keep hot gases from squirting through tiny gaps in the joint between sections of the solid-fuel rocket. When the O ring failed, escaping gas cut into the shuttle's liquid-fuel booster like a blowtorch and triggered a massive explosion. The modified design, said Thomas, will make a repeat catastrophe virtually impossible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Brighter Future for Nasa? | 8/25/1986 | See Source »

...swamp critters. They have some of the charged, crude intensity of New Mexican santos. Surls is a good craftsman who does not make a parade of technique. He lacks laconic effects - nothing too beautiful: storytelling rather than elocution. His preferred tools are the chain saw, the ax and the blowtorch, with which he "paints" areas of sooty shadow into the wood. This scorching makes his pieces look even more like visitors from Down Below. You can laugh at the devil, but not too hard or long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Intensifications of Nature | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

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