Word: jig
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...nick-name, but stopped abruptly. Like some great bear trap, his mind had snapped into action. "Of course! the Bronze Rhinoceros is a nickname!" Just at that moment Bundle looked up and saw an immense dark--skinned man lumber down the University Hall steps. All at once the jig-saw pieces fit together, and Bundie knew he was right. He dashed behind the building and cautiously peered around the corner...
Traditionally the jigsaw puzzle depicted placid pastoral scenes. By comparing picture with puzzle, puzzlers could assemble pieces by color or line, put the whole thing together in jig time. Easier to win at than solitaire and less demanding than a novel, it was a relaxing remedy for rainy afternoons and hospital confinements. But that was before Springbok Editions sprung its pasteboard version of Jackson Pollock's "Convergence...
Finally in the spring of 1963, Thompson realized the jig was up when he saw two men in a nearby car taking pictures of him and Kudashkin. "I knew it was the FBI; Kudashkin was sloppy in his work," Thompson explained. Shortly after that Kudashkin went back to Russia for "imperative family reasons." FBI men continued to watch Thompson for 15 months, finally picked him up in August 1964, and he began to spill his story to agents. Most of it was not news to them. The FBI had been spying on Thompson's spying ever since he came...
...says, the consequences of research are seldom a powerful element in the motivation of the scientist. "In my case, the motivation was simple curiosity. I was puzzled by a chemical structure--before it was even thought to be detrimental to health--in the same way that a jig-saw puzzle is intriguing, and I wondered how it all came about...
Luck and ingenuity keep him alive. He stumbles on a cave that gives some shelter and contrives to start a fire with yellow rocks that burn like low-grade coal. On the third day, oxygen gone, he discovers that the rocks release it when they are heated, and in jig time he rigs up a pressure cooker and replenishes his tanks. A few days later, led by the small South American monkey that shared his spaceship, he finds a spring of clear water, and in the water a plant that bears edible tubers...