Word: craft
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Harvard Square Holiday Craft Fair--the fifth annual marketplace of exciting local and world crafts: jewelry, pottery, clothing and art. At the First Parish Church, 3 Church St. basement, Harvard Square. Saturday, Dec. 14 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 15 from noon to 6 p.m. For information call...
Shortly before midnight of Feb. 8, under a heavy bombardment, 13,000 Japanese surged across the strait on a fleet of 300 collapsible plywood boats and landing craft. A battalion of 2,500 Australians fought them off all night, but by dawn the Japanese held their beachhead, and then the tanks started across. Though the Japanese were actually outnumbered about 2 to 1 overall, the martial spirit invoked in London hardly existed in Singapore -- at least not on the British side. At a point when the Japanese had conquered half the island, British staff officers could still be seen sipping...
...spacecraft to have a close encounter with an asteroid. But pictures of the mysterious planetary fragment, called Gaspra, are unavailable because Galileo's main antenna for sending out images is frozen in the wrong position. Not until 1992, when Galileo swings back by Earth, can smaller antennas on the craft successfully transmit the missing pictures. The frustrating delay makes scientists all the more grateful for Magellan's reliable -- and revealing -- signals from Venus...
Business has also been slow for Marc Johnson, proprietor of Mud Man, a craft shop specializing in "interplanetary pottery...
...sailboat is a hole in the water into which you pour money. And effort. And time. The surprise is only that the description has remained apt for so long. While there have been countless improvements in boating equipment, the sailboat, especially the basic 30- to 40-ft. cruising craft, has not changed much in the past 20 years. Nor has it had the full- scale design overhaul that might be expected for a relatively expensive sport, where as many as eight people work simultaneously at complicated tasks...