Word: handiwork
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...State Dean Acheson, who makes his own furniture; TV and Radio Luminaries Desi Arnaz, Edgar Bergen and Fibber McGee, who spend their spare time puttering around with shelves and kitchen cabinets; Movie and Recording Stars George Montgomery, Perry Como, Dan Duryea and Jane Russell, who do their own handiwork, build boats and furniture; the Strategic Air Command's General Curtis LeMay, who is currently helping fellow airmen rebuild a private airplane, and has set up do-it-yourself workshops at SAC bases for everyone from airmen to SAC's vice-commander, Major General Francis H. Griswold...
Animals on the Mantel. The apartment where Artist Statsinger conducts her own explorations, near Chicago's crime-blighted Midway, is painted dead white. The low, simple furniture is her own handiwork, and her clothes closet is crammed with carpentry tools. Ranged along the hearth and mantel are geometric little "animals" which she makes of papier-mãché and wire for relaxation...
...Altarpiece" by Jan Van Eyck, was not what it seemed to be on the surface. Paul Coremans, director of the Laboratoire Central des Musees de Belgique, said that many of the exquisite features of the painting which everyone had admired as the genius of Van Eyck were really the handiwork of some later dabbler who had painted over Van Eyck's work in an effort to revive the once-damaged painting...
Human Tornado. The Navymen and civilian scientists in the blank-walled building know this too, but they dare not sit back to mull over the implications of their handiwork. Too often for their peace of mind, and generally on a weekend, the chill word spreads among them that "the admiral is here." All hands tense and quicken as a slight, spare human tornado whirls through the shop. Few jobs are done fast enough or well enough to suit Admiral Hyman George Rickover, topflight Navy engineer and leader of this strange new development program. His passage leaves a boiling wake...
...equipped with a large blackboard for equations and theorems; Eliot's was always blank. So he gave each character in his play a Greek name, Alpha, Beta, and so on, charting the plot on the board. If the resulting formulae baffled Einstein, so much the better. Eliot left his handiwork on the board for the rest of the year...