Word: jigsaw
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...hospital," said Mrs. Clement Attlee of her husband, "he has spent a lot of time with jigsaw puzzles. You know, jigsaw puzzles are fine for making you forget your worries...
...they dress. George dwells (with son-in-law Sheldon Stewart) in a spacious Georgian house in Montclair, N.J., where he lives a lonely life despite the ministrations of ten servants. He amuses himself watching television (his favorite: Arthur Godfrey), listening to an electric organ played with automatic rolls, working jigsaw puzzles and tinkering with radio and TV sets. In the summer, he allows himself a suite at the ocean-side Monmouth Hotel in Spring Lake, N.J., but commutes to the office every day. He has never taken a vacation...
...evidence that "you don't catch a cold-you have it," Dr. Kerr told how he and fellow workers at the University of California tried to infect subjects with another person's cold. People without colds would play cards or work jigsaw puzzles for hours next to a sneezing, sniffling victim; others drank from glasses smeared with a cold sufferer's sputum. Even so, said Dr. Kerr, his healthy subjects failed to catch colds...
Anthony Eden. They agreed that electioneering was' hard work. Attlee added: "I like my jigsaw puzzles in the evening." Despite his self-effacement, Clement Attlee's mark was all over the Indian In dependence Day tea party. The tea came in thick cups because Britain's fine china must be exported. The cream on the cakes was synthetic because Britain must keep her imports down. Under their gossamer saris, many of the Indian women present wore homely sweaters because Britain's coal must not be wasted...
...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...