Word: jigsaw
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Everything fell into place like matching pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. By the mid-1950s electronics engineers began to realize that relay satellites were not only possible, they might well prove enormously profitable...
...doesn't worry about his opponents to the right. Instead, he sees himself supplying ammunition to men who feel very like he does, covering the hotter subjects--the stories "safe" liberals file away, picking up the pieces on the edges, ones that don't fit into into the Establishment jigsaw...
...Houston Astros (formerly the Colt .45s), played their first day game under the steel and plastic dome, against their own Oklahoma City farm hands. As a precautionary measure, outfielders wore batting helmets in the field. They needed them. Unable to follow the flight of the ball against the jigsaw pattern of the roof, the players staggered about like asphyxiated cockroaches as fly ball after fly ball dropped at their feet. When they quit after seven innings, the Astros were ahead 10-3- and six of the runs had been scored on lost fly balls. "It's impossible to play...
...orgy of thin red lines, blue smudges and black and white blobs, the abstraction lived up to its billing as the "world's hardest jigsaw puzzle." There were colors all right, but where did they go? Handsomely packaged with a glossy reproduction of the painting and priced at $3.50, the puzzle has found its way into more than 100,000 homes...
Sensing a new jag in the jigsaw trend, Springbok has become even more esoteric, is pushing circular puzzles (no straight edges to assemble for frame) in solid colors. Upon opening "Little Red Riding Hood's Hood," the puzzlephile sees nothing but red-506 pieces of it. Or if he prefers white or brown, he can work at two vicious circles teasingly entitled "Snow White Without the Seven Dwarfs" and "CloseUp of the Three Bears." For those overburdened with leisure time, the thrill in working out such finger exercises is the assurance that no deadlier way to kill time...