Word: hacksaw
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...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...
Spring Inventory. In El Reno, Okla., the Federal Reformatory put up for sale 1,500 Ibs. of "scrap and salvage, consisting of hacksaw blades, files and broken tools...
They collected kitchen knives, cleavers, axes, shovels, scissors, hacksaw blades and night sticks. They let all the prisoners they could out of their cells, and directed the preparation of food for prisoners and hostages alike. Associate Warden Bezzerides suggested that he outline their demands. In a shaky hand, he wrote: "Confinement without hope is pointless. Accordingly, we would like to discuss our difficulties from the standpoint of some kind of therapeutic treatments for the men doing time for rules infractions...