Word: jigsaw
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yard experts were doing any better than the local police, they were keeping mum. Said Detective Superintendent Richard Lewis bravely: "We are putting the jigsaw puzzle together." Bermuda locked its doors and waited in fear for the next new moon on October...
...flung research fields, flow curious and varied intelligence items-students gathering puffball mushrooms, desert rats that have learned to smoke, a drug made from a chemical relative of DDT, a plastic "iron lung'' for mice. To him, they all fit tiny corners of the vast jigsaw that must be filled in before cancer can be conquered. Meanwhile, his reports on the enemy's inroads are grim...
...peaceful depths of the unit, ordinary gravitation prevails. Stars are born, grow old, and die, and planets revolve around them. But the galactic units themselves must flee from one another. They were formed out of matter that was fleeing, and they must continue to flee. They are like jigsaw puzzles put together on a moving train. They must move in the same way that their unassembled pieces were moving...
More than a Puzzle. Author Coccioli has told the life and death of Indians of Tepoztlan, which parallel the Gospels in elaborate detail. Skill, insight and a rich, image-decked style make this chronicle more than a theological teaser or a jigsaw puzzle about just which Biblical figure is lurking under what sombrero. Coccioli has achieved a mosaic of miniatures in which the state of Morelos is the Kingdom of Judaea, and in which the pre-Columbian pantheon is transfigured to decorate a Christian altarpiece. Coccioli has leaped over the two stumbling blocks-banality and blasphemy-that beset the path...
...Columbus, Magellan, and De Soto. There, 20 Air Forcemen and scientists participating in the International Geophysical Year took over a simple camp: 20 Quonset huts, mess hall, science laboratory, 5,000-ft. runway and an electric homing beacon for supply planes. And there they resolutely logged their fresh jigsaw pieces of knowledge about water masses, current patterns, ice drift, season changes and marine life...