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Dave Bunz of the 49ers stopped Bengal running back Charles Alexander just inches away from a touchdown on the next play, and Johnson was denied once more on fourth down when middle linebacker Jack "Hacksaw" Reynolds met him over the right guard hole...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 49er Victory Climaxes Dream Season | 1/25/1982 | See Source »

...women since 1975. Before the suspect was arrested last January, more than $8 million had been spent and 300,000 people questioned in what became the largest man hunt in British history. Displayed on a table in the courtroom was a gruesome assortment of exhibits: hammers, screwdrivers, knives, a hacksaw and a thin, short rope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: How Say You? | 5/11/1981 | See Source »

...pictures, taken in 1967 over Hanoi by a U.S. reconnaissance plane, freezes a terrifying moment in the Viet Nam War: an exploding SAM missile scoring a kill on a U.S. Phantom reconnaissance jet that has burst into flames. Another shot resembles a sort of hacksaw that turns out, on closer inspection, to be an assortment of bombers at a top-secret airfield in the Soviet Union. There are also high-altitude views of submarines nestling alongside their mother ships on the coast of the Barents Sea; a lunar-like landscape that is a Soviet hydrogen-bomb test site; a graceful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Spying from on High | 4/7/1980 | See Source »

...North Carolina civil rights suit. Bell, who would be called on to defend his fellow Cabinet member, forwarded the offering to Califano. "What a hell of a thing," said Joe. "To find that the guy who is going to help you stay out of jail has sent you a hacksaw...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 16, 1979 | 4/16/1979 | See Source »

Forsyth's skillful set-piece description of how to make a bomb and attach it to a Jaguar XK 1505 (using five rubber erasers and a broken hacksaw blade) is a model of worldly efficiency. But he is also capable of howlingly unintentional humor. After pages and pages recalling the ferocity of the SS, a Jewish survivor warns the young reporter: "Do be careful. These men can be dangerous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Literary Conglomerate | 12/11/1972 | See Source »

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