Word: hacksaw
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...exhibition is an example of the more practical applications of the tangram. During World War I the popularity of this puzzle provided a manufacturer with a chance to help Allied prisoners escape; Red Cross care packages contained tangram puzzles in wooden boxes, many of which had a hacksaw, a compass, and a map concealed in a false wall...
...delay proved to be embarrassing. A sticky bolt prevented the removal of an exterior-hatch handle. Lockheed technicians called for a special drill, which took 20 minutes to arrive. When it did, the battery was dead. There were no replacements on hand. After 90 minutes of fiddling, an ordinary hacksaw was used to free the bolt...
Waiting out this frustrating postponement at the cape, Ed Corrigan, Christa's father, said wryly, "I would have gotten the hacksaw sooner." Commented his wife Grace: "I would have gotten my nail file." One veteran consultant to NASA was less charitable, asking, "Can you imagine a pad leader permitting an s.o.b. to show up for work with a drill with a dead battery...
...week she finally returned to do her time-tempered by a measure of Italian eleganza. Loren was chauffeured by police in a white Alfa Romeo to Casa Circondariale, a pink-walled women's prison near her native Naples. Carrying a bouquet that could have concealed a good-size hacksaw, Sophia was cheered by fellow inmates as she was escorted to a 10-ft.-sq. cell. Skeptics attributed Loren's homecoming to her planned starring role in a film that starts shooting in Italy next month. But Sophia offered a more Mediterranean explanation: "I want to see my mother...
...been behind the wheel of a Toyota Celica, running practice laps at California's Riverside International Raceway. Among the varied competitors scheduled for the 21.3-mile race are: Actor Robert Hays, Rock Star Ted Nugent, Race Drivers Parnelli Jones and Bobby Unser and fellow 49er Linebacker Jack ("Hacksaw") Reynolds. Racing on the same track as pros like Unser and Jones, says Reynolds nervously, "is like putting a college freshman out on the field against...