Word: jigsaw
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Where the Pole should be," he announced, "there is only a nightmare jigsaw puzzle of ice floes ... I won't say it's impossible that Peary reached the actual Pole, but it's extremely improbable...
...jigsaw puzzle assignment went to the New York firm that originally made the window. The repair work was paid for by the Harvard Club of New York...
Vasco Pratolini's jigsaw picture of violence, perversion and young love is colored by a tired tenderness for people too much at the mercy of their own appetites and apathies to fight or even to visualize the blackshirt terror closing in. Some readers will not have the patience to keep track of the dozens of lightly sketched characters; others will gag on the implication that communism was the only answer to Mussolini. But A Tale of Poor Lovers is no U.S.-brand party-line novel. It is wise, involved and European-a swarming microcosm of social and psychological complexities...
...jigsaw of Russian intentions for Eastern Germany was fitting together. At first there had been only isolated clues-the wing of a prison converted into barracks at Dessau, an order for 5,000 shoulder insignia of the old German style, the sight of men marching and drilling on a onetime Wehrmacht training field near Rostock. Then the evidence came faster. The Russians were busily organizing a military "police" force of a quarter of a million Germans, almost twice as large as the entire force of pre-Hitler Germany...
...Jigsaw Puzzle. Britain's editors have found ways to give their readers (50 million plus, daily and Sunday) more & more news in less & less space. They have trimmed margins, shrunk headlines, fitted stories into pages like jigsaw puzzles, even used the "gutters" between pages. And they have sharpened their copy pencils: one of the sweeter uses of austerity has been a gain in crispness and readability...