Word: hacksaw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mother with Saks Fifth Avenue shopping bag stands by car on sidewalk keeping watch. Boy, about eight years old, stays by father throughout, observing and helping. Father, dressed in neat sport shirt, slacks and windbreaker, inspects car, opens trunk, rummages through; opens own car trunk full of tools, removes hacksaw, cuts for one minute. Lifts battery out and puts it in his trunk. Lifts entire radiator out, places it on back floor of his car. Family drives...
...trespassing, resisting arrest and refusal to disperse, fought the rap unsuccessfully for two years through higher courts (the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review it), and last week marched off to the pokey after taking a bite of his farewell gift from friends: a chocolate cake with a hacksaw stuck in the middle...
...loner, a maverick with a fence complex: he sees fences everywhere and hates them always. When he finds that an old pal is behind one-in jail-Douglas gets drunk, tangles with a barroom psycho, and manages to be thrown into the same hoosegow. He proposes to hacksaw some time off his friend's two-year sentence. But the pal has been tamed by a wife and child, and Douglas makes the jailbreak alone...
...crewmen were nowhere near so sanguine as their leaders that they would make the full 2,300-mile, 16-hour round trip. Passed from hand to hand were a flood of paperback books about British escapes from World War I German prison camps. One pilot taped a hacksaw blade to the sole of his foot; he was convinced that there would be enough shot-down U.S. flyers wandering around the Rumanian countryside "to call a general election, vote the Germans out, and make peace with the Allies...
Sense of Purpose. In Rockingham, N.C., Joanne Bullard, 22, got a six-month prison term for trying to smuggle two hacksaw blades to her husband in the county jail, along with a note saying: "Hurry home. Honey...