Word: jigsaw
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jigsaw Fragments. The Yard sent Detective Superintendent Herbert Hannam, a homicide specialist whose quiet, aristocratic looks have inspired the press to call him "The Count." From London dozens of newsmen burst into Eastbourne like an explosion of profanity at a church tea. They camped in once-quiet hotel lobbies, queued up at the municipal clerk's office to buy samples of death certificates, trailed police cars and pounded on the doors of frightened old ladies. They dredged up every rumor in town-and their editors printed whatever they thought they could get away with...
Often the stories seemed almost incomprehensible jigsaw fragments except to those aware-as all Eastbourne is-of some rumors that the papers dared not print. For example, on Page One, London's conservative Daily Telegraph merely reported that Hannam had interviewed the 72-year-old mother of Sir John Hunt, who led the Mt. Everest expedition, but offered no clue as to why or what resulted beyond the fact that she "described an incident which occurred at a small bridge party she gave about twelve years ago." Another account told of reports that letters written by relatives to aging...
Treasury, Post Office and Tax Court). But it has acted affirmatively on only one issue of national significance (natural gas regulation), and that bill was vetoed. On the farm issue, after early action was urged by all sides, the Senate carved out a jigsaw puzzle that is being patched in conference and probably faces a veto...
...Session with Brubeck. Brubeck bends his lanky torso over the keys, concentrating like a child on a jigsaw puzzle, but his eyes are closed. The other members of the quartet-Alto Saxophonist Paul Desmond, Drummer Joe Dodge and Bass Player Bob Bates-go to work. Desmond's tones are plaintive and pure, the rhythm of drum and bass is as rich and firm as a deep-pile carpet. Like Bach starting off to improvise a passacaglia, they lay down the tune-say, Let's Fall in Love-as a kind of groundwork. Desmond's eyes close...
Close to the Tiger. The whole catch was flown to Farnborough. where experts fitted the pieces together on a wooden frame, like a 3-D jigsaw puzzle. Meanwhile, crews of courageous scientists were flying another Comet (Able Victor) on a long series of hair-raising test flights. Careless of their own lives, they tried to duplicate the stresses that had destroyed Yoke Peter. As Sir Lionel described it, "they were going as close to the tiger as possible, hoping it would not get them." Able Victor did not crash; neither did Comet Yoke Sugar, whose fuel tanks were pressure-strained...